When the Massachusetts colony issued its own unredeemable paper money in 1690, it was with the promise that it would soon be redeemable in specie. Like all paper money issued…
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Is the US riding an “everything bubble” to the next crisis? Mark Thornton joins Paul Buitink to diagnose the dollar, the debt, and the Fed’s distortion machine.
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Ryan Bourne and Solveig Singleton Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden, has resurfaced with a new affordability wheeze: cap the price of groceries,…
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Human action involves people engaging in unique events in which outcomes often are uncertain, when expertise and planning often do not give us the results we anticipate.
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We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a weapon against state sovereignty…
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Social Media Addiction Trial Begins, With Stakes for Youth Online Safety Debate
Jennifer Huddleston In February 2025, the first in a series of class action trials began against several social media platforms. Plaintiffs allege the companies deliberately designed their products to be…
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The Invincibility Gap: How Constitutional Safeguards Have Become a List of Polite Suggestions
Mike Fox The promise of the American legal system is often visualized as a level playing field, but two recent developments at the Supreme Court—the ruling in USPS v. Konan and…
The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first…
Dr. Keith Smith recounts how the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and the Free Market Medical Association are exposing the hospital–insurance cartel—posting honest, bundled prices, triggering price wars, and proving that…
Dominik Lett Last night, President Trump gave the State of the Union. Over the course of two hours, the president painted a rosy fiscal and economic picture and made several…