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The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several Thanksgiving staples, prices have...
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Can regulation work when a market changes faster than a case can be litigated? The Justice Department filed its antitrust case against Google in...
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Introduction The gold standard was a monetary system that defined a unit of a nation’s currency as a fixed weight of gold and made...
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Robot foot soldier of Skynet, the apocalyptic artificial superintelligence of the Terminator film franchise. Maybe it’s a law of history: every innovation faces opposition. The early...
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at a press conference. 2024. The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a 50 basis point cut...
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Frustrated factory workers can be enticed to invest in their own enrichment if constraints on human capital are relieved. Few deny the importance of...
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Skulls of young men murdered by the Pol Pot regime in the Killing Fields of Cambodia; on display in a shrine to the dead...
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Although I’ve taught Principles of Microeconomics (“ECON 101”) nearly every year now for the past 42 years, I never tire of this course. I...
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Experts were tracking a mental health crisis among Gen Z college students, even before they were quarantined, masked, and socially distanced. In 2018, 1,200...
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Electricity is among the most-regulated sectors of the U.S. economy. A century of public-utility regulation of entry and rates has given way to new...
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A mural anticipates Taylor Swift’s show at Wembley Stadium in London. 2024. Last week, former President Donald Trump stirred the pot by posting a...
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A young mother prepares a meal for her child. Nearly ten years ago, I wrote what I thought was a provocative essay about polygamy...
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“The Blessings of Protection,” lithograph criticizing steel industry tariffs. Louis Dalrymple. Puck, 1901. Original caption: “The poor foreigner couldn’t get his rails for Twenty-four...
