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The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The other...
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Mark Thornton presents a timely interview with Elijah K. Johnson that underscores how quickly “melt-ups” can flip into sharp corrections.
Will the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) succeed? If the regulatory story of DDT is a prime example of government regulation in action, then...
One of the Austrian arguments against using mathematics to model economic phenomena is that there are no constants in economics, as things always are...
The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The other...
Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly anti-capitalist. It has been 50 years since Estado Novo’s...
Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction, the...
While the Fed continues its “two percent” charade, the central bank has been inflating the US economy into ruin. The latest Fed capers will...
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward...
For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.
A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become Santa.
Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant narrative for generations,...
The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced...
For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.