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Ilana Mercer describes how, with the genocide of Gazans almost complete, the media is now reporting on it as a way of absolving itself...
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Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s...
Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they...
Keynesian orthodoxy claims that the cause of recessions is a decline in so-called aggregate demand. Besides confusing cause-and-effect, Keynesians don’t understand that downturns are...
Ilana Mercer describes how, with the genocide of Gazans almost complete, the media is now reporting on it as a way of absolving itself...
Argentina’s central bank dipped into its already-depleted reserves to sell more than $1 billion of the US currency over three days to defend the...
Scott Bessent pledged on September 22 to do “whatever it takes” to prop up the Trump administration’s most important ally in Latin America
For those who are actually concerned about the further concentration of political power the president’s habit of sending federal troops to American cities is...
The media is trying to frame last week’s indictment of James Comey as a “norm-shattering” use of executive power for personal gain. In truth,...
Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a...
Professor Georgy Ganev joins Bob to explain that, contrary to the claims of David Graeber and the MMTers, the barter origin of money has...
Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a...
Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade. Partisans are rewarded for tribal loyalty rather...