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There are zero genuine cuts. Instead, spending increases by an average of 3.5 percent annually.

Sometimes the ordinary can reveal the miraculous.

Capitalism isn't as "irredeemable" as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have you to believe.

Everything the Federal Reserve did to cause the housing crash was done on a much larger scale, not just in 2008, but in every year since.

It’s ultimately companies and employees who should be negotiating their leave plans.

Variety is not just the spice of life but an essential element of what it means to be human.

Debt reduction is possible. Indeed, there can be huge reductions in a very short period of time.

Gramsci viewed churches, charities, the media, and schoolsas organizations that needed to be invaded by socialist thinkers.

Countries who expanded women’s property rights also saw a tangible economic benefit.

We’re falling behind only in the race to impose more government.

We need to focus on the expansion of benefits for others as competition induces increased productivity.

We need a cultural Great Awakening akin to past religious Great Awakenings.

Governments don’t tax away dollars to stare at them lovingly. The dollars taken from us signal growing government control.

Minnesota may soon join NPV—but not without the assistance of a legislative gimmick.

The federal government provides more student loansandspends more moneyon higher educationthan it used to, but colleges justraise tuitionto match the increased spending.

For those of us who still subscribe to fiscal conservatism, these trends are troubling.

Diversity statements will actually be anti-diversity statements of uniform, leftist-liberal-progressive thought.

Economists have always known that a government has three sources of money: it can tax it, borrow it, or print it.

Even Krugman admitted: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Proportional representation better represents America’s voters when compared to the winner-takes-all method.

The terrorist understands that free markets value one’s talent and hard work regardless of his religion, race,and color.

Such a system could not possibly remain universal.

Kitchen Nightmares is a very fun show to watch, and it's usually a story of trial and redemption.

It had been at least 25 years, and reading '1984' today was a very different experience.

Every once in a while, I notice a truth, revealed long ago through reason by the Austrians, peeking through when a modern Keynesian happens to write about real-world effects that seemed to him counter-intuitive.

Have state efforts to protect families from themselves become a more serious threat than the supposed dangers families pose to themselves?

His books started a slow burn in Russia that would eventually send the Soviet Union into the ash heap of history.

We may have lost this battle, but the war for a free internet must continue.

The highest bid for Hayek’s Nobel Prize reflects the massive respect for the economist and the influential intellectual legacy he left behind.

Any prosecutor who does this should be charged with a crime.

Far more worrying than some violent protesters, however, are the long-term consequences of the government's reaction.

Pro-growth policies and subsequent tax cuts accompanied these prosperous presidencies.

Vote for Big Brother or no health care for you.

Affordability is not the culprit here.

It’s not exactly heroic to be unwilling to stand up and vote for what you claim to believe in.

No, you don't have a "right" to demand that others are vaccinated.

If the government is subsidizing everyone, then it is effectively subsidizing no one.

That a recession is coming is a certainty.

France was once a role model for what big government can do for its people. But it has become an embarrassing example since the "Gilets Jaunes” took to the streets to demonstrate against the insane amount of taxes they pay.

The only way to boost wages is to boost worker productivity.

It is a question that I am seeing more and more, and the answers get worse and worse.

Desperate patients pay up because they have nowhere else to go—and their distress is deliberate and designed.

In other words, Florida 14, New York 0.

The survival of liberty depends on skepticism of government power—and make no mistake, that includes President Trump.

Governmental choices are not sophisticated ones requiring insights “far beyond those of mortal men” from political Supermen.

Life is material, but matter is not all of life.

If inflation leads to such negative consequences, thenwhy do so many economists think inflation is necessary?

Is capitalism inefficient and wasteful because bakeries end up throwing away some pastries at the end of the day?

The Founders’ acceptance of altruism, where self-interest is immoral and self-sacrifice the highest moral ideal, was the root cause for The Decline.

From lifting people out of poverty and lowering mortality rates to revolutionizing how we communicate and travel, capitalism serves the greater good.