Economy
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Four Ways to Get What You Want
How can you get what you want? Years ago, Clarence Carson pointed out that fundamentally, there are four ways, and Paul Cleveland...
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How Two Corn Cobs Upended A Foreign Aid Model in Zimbabwe
Some years ago on a quiet summer morning, my friend Ben Freeth and I paddled our red kayaks across a lake in...
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14th Quarter 2022 GDP Shows Growth, but Deteriorating Fundamentals
Real GDP rose 2.9 percent in the 4th quarter of 2022, exceeding estimates ranging from 2.6 to 2.7 percent. This puts the...
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But Who Will Build the Roads: A Parable
First came the native trails and traces. Fair and free they were, unless you were on the wrong one at the wrong...
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2What Accounts for All This Stuff?
Attacks on the market order are today being issued unabated, and with almost as much gusto from the political right as from...
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1Obstacles to Freedom Can Be the Way to Freedom
In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius famously observed, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Contemporary...
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2Rising Use of the Fed’s Discount Window Raises Questions
In the early days of the COVID pandemic, the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world pulled out all the stops....
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2Davos and the Holy Grail of Equity
Participants in the World Economic Forum (WEF) seem to have mistaken Davos for Camelot. After days of talking and revelry, they have...
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4A Dispatch From the Corporatized Dystopia: Bring on the Chains!
Are chain stores and chain restaurants wrecking the world and turning our colorful, quirky, diverse world into a uniformly bland, corporatized dystopia,...
