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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 3)

     With the Presidential election but eight weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The third episode: … Continue reading

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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 2)

     With the Presidential election but nine weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The second episode: … Continue reading

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Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 1)

     With the Presidential election but ten weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.      The first episode: The … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That Welfare Has Done More Harm than Good

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      The question of whether the Welfare state is good or bad depends for far too many people on … Continue reading

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Subsidizing Poverty via Free Money From The Government

     Universal Basic Income (UBI), whereby people are given free money just for being a warm body, has often been heralded as an economic panacea. While some such as the laudable Milton Friedman supported negative income tax or replacing welfare programs … Continue reading

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Liberty vs. Virtue: The False Dilemma Fallacy

     The Post-Conservative Right shares much of it’s worldview with the older Hard Left. Not in the eschaton they want to immanentize, but that we must more forcefully so immanentize. To this end, we see the false dilemma fallacy of freedom … Continue reading

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About That Wage Gap…

     The gender pay gap is one of those things bandied about to prove The Patriarchy™ oppresses women at the workplace. Of course we know if you take into account other factors, this gap almost completely disappears. However, we are now … Continue reading

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The Cause Of Inflation

     With inflation still an issue, many wonder just what is causing it? Let this cartoon bit from over half-a-century ago educate you if you still don’t understand. Scrooge McDuck tells what would happen if we printed a few billion dollars … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: Tax Reform

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      The Republican Party was most effective in cutting or otherwise reforming the tax system. Let us look back … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: The Economic Lot of Minorities

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Is is en vogue to declare that non-Whites are oppressed and suffer due to a “system of oppression”. … Continue reading

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