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One Way to Solve the Stock Market’s Valuation Puzzle
Any way you cut it, none of these macro views are particularly supportive for stocks right now.
Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke  ·  April 17, 2023
Is Anti-Sweatshop Activism Making Bangladeshis Poorer?
Benjamin Powell  ·  April 17, 2023
California Defaults on $18.5 Billion Debt, Leaving State Businesses Holding the Bag
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  April 14, 2023
It’s Destructive and Unfair to Tax ‘Unrealized Capital Gains’
They reflect expected profits, which often fail to materialize, and the levy wouldn’t hit only the rich.
Richard B. McKenzie  ·  April 14, 2023
Professors Feel the Impact of Higher Education’s Collapse
College is too expensive, too high-risk, and too woke, and, as a result, professors are facing lower inflation-adjusted salaries.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 13, 2023
Problems and Solutions: What To Do about Social Security and Medicare for Older Americans
John C. Goodman  ·  April 12, 2023
To Preserve Liberty, Not Slavery
Carl Bogus invented the fiction that the purpose of the Second Amendment was slave control.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  April 12, 2023
Persons Aged 18-20 Are Entitled to Carry Firearms
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  April 11, 2023
Musk Calls Out NPR as Government Mouthpiece
PBS deserves the same designation.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 10, 2023
Peru Remains Stable and Free, Against All Odds
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  April 6, 2023
Higher Education and the Law of Diminishing Returns
Shortening the average time-to-degree makes economic sense.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 5, 2023
DeSantis’ View on Ukraine Should Not Be Dismissed
Ivan Eland  ·  April 3, 2023
Biden’s Nominees Are a Display of Liberal Incompetence
Julie Su seems just as fit for the role as Biden’s other nominees; that is, not at all.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 3, 2023
The Phantom National Homelessness Crisis
Officials must recognize that behavioral issues are the primary cause of homelessness.
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  April 1, 2023
W.H.O. Do You Trust?
Scott W. Atlas  ·  March 30, 2023
Muzzling Free Expression on Campus Causes Self-Censorship
Toxic campus cultures teach students and faculty to keep quiet.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  March 28, 2023
California Politicians and Regulators ‘Create Necessity,’ Not Solutions
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  March 27, 2023
How They Convinced Trump to Lock Down
Jeffrey Tucker  ·  March 27, 2023
Using Sedition and Domestic Terrorism Laws against Rioters Is Overkill
David T. Beito  ·  March 23, 2023
The Fed’s Policies Haunt Financial Markets
Paying people not to work is inflationary; paying people to increase supplies of goods and services isn’t.
Judy L. Shelton  ·  March 23, 2023
The Fed’s Self-Directed Tragedy
Steve H. Hanke, Manuel Hinds  ·  March 23, 2023
The U.S. Needs a Budget Straitjacket
Steve H. Hanke, Barry W. Poulson  ·  March 21, 2023
Three Banks Just Failed—Fear of Contagion Looms Amid Silicon Valley Bank Troubles
Jonathan Hofer  ·  March 21, 2023
What Happened to Stanford?
The list of serial embarrassments at Stanford reads like the suicides of Greek tragedy, where divine nemesis follows hubris.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  March 20, 2023
The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books
A Visit to Hipster Brooklyn
Naomi R. Wolf  ·  March 20, 2023


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