Stefan Bartl
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Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’
You can’t build a castle on sand, and you can’t build a city on assumptions. Saudi Arabia unveiled The Line…
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Liberty Creates Abundance: How Free Markets Feed Families
Thanksgiving draws people, regardless of race or creed, together around a table heavy with food and laughter. At its center…
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Frankenstein’s Money Press: How Washington Unleashed the Modern Monetary Monster
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious chart of fiscal lore…
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Semiconductor Giants with Tech-Industrial Ambitions
In 1961, with global politics chilled by the looming Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address, warning…
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From Draining the Swamp to Owning Intel: How the Right Became What It Feared
America has always prided itself on not being a socialist nation. But President Donald Trump now hails a new “golden…
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From Tea Party Patriotism to Economic Nationalism: How the Right Gave Up on Small Government
The cascading events of the 2008 global recession, and a bipartisan $700 billion bailout of US banks, sparked a cultural…
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The Merchant Republic: America at 249
Most nations are bound by tribe or throne. From the beginning, America pioneered to be different, the first nation founded…
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The Great Covid Exodus: How the Pandemic Sparked a Tax Revolt
April 15 is the only day the federal debt goes down. For the rest of the year, it’s business as…
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The Global AI Race: the US Creates, China Copies, and the EU Regulates
Me: “Hey Siri! Write me an essay on artificial intelligence showing how the USA., China and the European Union interact…
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Biden Expanded Executive Power to Kill the US Steel-Nippon Merger
In one of his final acts as President, Joe Biden has blocked Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel, citing national…
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