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Obamacare Was Never Affordable
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IMF’s Outlook: Not Great
The IMF’s October 2025 update to its World Economic Outlook delivers a modest upward revision, but lurking behind this seemingly…
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Yang Zhu and the Freedom of the Self
Yang Zhu (440–360 BC) was a Chinese philosopher whose ideas were considered daring and transgressive for his time, but can…
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Democracy and Capitalism Are Mutually Reinforcing
Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether…
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Zack Polanski Plays the Populist Card
For Trumpians, tariffs have become an all-purpose tool, which supposedly achieves multiple policy objectives all at once. Tariffs are presented…
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Capitalism Connected Guatemala
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A New Pacific Trade Highway
When President Trump announced a new 100% tariff on Chinese imports, in retaliation for Beijing’s latest export controls on rare…
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Beyond the Welfare State
Since the launch of the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the rate of those living in poverty, as defined…
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics honors three economists whose work embodies an idea first coined by Joseph Schumpeter: creative…
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