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And that's the problem. There’s no point relying on interest rates to control the money supply (Powell) when government spending (Biden) continues to exacerbate inflationary pressures. Sound money and sound finances must go hand in hand for the economy to regain a solid footing. What do we do next?
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David R. Legates (American Thinker)
So says CNN. One problem, however. Their before-and-after aerial photography compared August 2022 to (you guessed it) August 2021—just one year before. Climate change is measured over periods of at least 30 years, not a single year. What CNN showed was a normal change in yearly weather conditions and local effects in dam operations. How inconvenient....
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Richard K. Vedder (The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal)
The U.S. faces the worst inflation in 40 years; and that, plus the nearly daily multi-billion-dollar drubbing the nation’s college and universities are getting in the stock market, mean they are facing perilous times. Will the Keynesian managerial class these schools trained up come to the rescue yet again?
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Robert M. Whaples (The Independent Review)
Data from historical and contemporary sources suggest that the poorest Americans—those in the bottom five percent—have higher incomes than roughly 95 percent of all the humans who have ever lived.
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Volume 25, Issue 36: September 7, 2022
Judy L. Shelton (Wall Street Journal)
And that's the problem. There’s no point relying on interest rates to control the money supply (Powell) when government spending (Biden) continues to exacerbate inflationary pressures. Sound money and sound finances must go hand in hand for the economy to regain a solid footing. What do we do next?
READ MORE »David R. Legates (American Thinker)
So says CNN. One problem, however. Their before-and-after aerial photography compared August 2022 to (you guessed it) August 2021—just one year before. Climate change is measured over periods of at least 30 years, not a single year. What CNN showed was a normal change in yearly weather conditions and local effects in dam operations. How inconvenient....
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Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
By S. Fred Singer, David R. Legates, Anthony R. Lupo
Richard K. Vedder (The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal)
The U.S. faces the worst inflation in 40 years; and that, plus the nearly daily multi-billion-dollar drubbing the nation’s college and universities are getting in the stock market, mean they are facing perilous times. Will the Keynesian managerial class these schools trained up come to the rescue yet again?
READ MORE »
Robert M. Whaples (The Independent Review)
Data from historical and contemporary sources suggest that the poorest Americans—those in the bottom five percent—have higher incomes than roughly 95 percent of all the humans who have ever lived.
READ MORE »
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- What’s the Issue with Classical Liberalism and Religion?, by Daniel B. Klein
- America’s Coming National Debt Crisis, by Craig Eyermann
- Heat Wave Pulls the Plug on Electric Cars, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- President Biden’s Big, Bad Deal, by Craig Eyermann
- Reducing Inflation with More Inflation, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Catalyst: New Articles
- Japan is Ready to Address the Energy Crisis, by Paige Lambermont
- Calling a Recession a Recession, by Brady Leonard
