Category Archives: Guest Post
The Euro at 20: An Enduring Success but a Fundamental Failure
The euro will stumble forward. No one will be happy with its operation. Equally, no one will leave.
Read more...6 Ways the Trump Shutdown Is Hurting the Country
A short tally of some of the damage done by the partial Federal shutdown.
Read more...Joining a Group Makes Us Nastier to Outsiders
Being in a group isn’t conducive to cooperation, and it’s not obvious how to change that.
Read more...Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Read more...Links 1/4/19
Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty
The implications of conservative libertarian ideas.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China, Apple, global manufacturing, Terry McAulliffe, Warren on war, Sanders 2016 campaign, PayGo, Green New Deal, manufacturing, employment, construction, Wells Fargo, more Apple, Amazon, journalism, obesity, Erica Garner
Read more...Piketty’s World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
Read more...Intergenerational Mobility in the US: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Economic mobility has fallen in the US. But which cohorts have suffered most and why?
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities
More on the implications of the writings of prominent conservative libertarian, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Read more...Links 1/2/19
UN Backs Seed Sovereignty as Defense Against Multinational-Led GMO Projects
The anti-GMO UN declaration was written by and for peasants from every continent.
Read more...These 2018 Corporate Scandals Demonstrate Why the New Democratic Congress Must Crack Down on Corruption
Though Mueller’s revelations have shocked the American public consciousness, they were not the biggest financial scandals of the year.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part IV – The Journey into a Libertarian Past
Further discussion of the implications of the ideas of an influential conservative libertarian.
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