Bob breaks down the mechanics behind how commercial banks create money out of thin air—and why that power fuels economic booms and busts.
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The US and its Western allies may scoff at this challenge, but it only became possible due to high-handedness (to use the kindest word imaginable) and outright illegality of US…
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The US and its Western allies may scoff at this challenge, but it only became possible due to high-handedness (to use the kindest word imaginable) and outright illegality of US…
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Patrick G. Eddington Today, Trump’s Department of Energy (DoE) announced in the Federal Register a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy change that has no basis in the FOIA statute…
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Travis Fisher In January 2023, I was debating the energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on X (formerly Twitter). A prominent advocate and professor at Princeton University, Jesse…
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After the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI rolled out the same “lone nut” narrative about who did it. However, much evidence exists to show that FBI informants and…
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After the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI rolled out the same “lone nut” narrative about who did it. However, much evidence exists to show that FBI informants and…
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Among President Trump’s many new (and unilateral) trade taxes—and by far the most sweeping—are his “reciprocal” tariffs, which today cover a large majority of…
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Alex Nowrasteh The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump in July 2025, allocates $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hire 10,000 additional Enforcement…
Walter Olson Number thirteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: As I’ve written many times, Congress could use its Article I, Section 4 authority to…