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Trump: A blessing in disguise for conservatives
It is easy to imagine that the publishers of National Review, the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal – bastions of conservativism,…
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Why I will vote for Donald Trump
I have written here and elsewhere about my misgivings over Donald Trump. In particular, I co-wrote a study that was sharply…
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Hillary Clinton’s economic sophistry
Second only to lawyers, economists are the subject of frequent jokes. For example: "If all the economists were laid end to…
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Independence Day
It is customary this holiday week to remind ourselves why the American colonies declared their independence from Britain some 240 years ago.…
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The public health ‘nanny state’
Probably the most famous example of nanny state intervention in consumer choices was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to ban the…
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What Trump must do to win over conservatives
"Today, the belief in American exceptionalism has vanished with the end of empire, the weakening of power, the loss of faith…
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The ‘millionaire tax’: California here we come
Massachusetts progressives are making another try at amending the state constitution to permit a graduated income tax. This is after unsuccessful efforts…
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The 2016 election and ‘The Fable of the Bees’
The media are missing the point when they attribute the Trump and Sanders phenomena to unhappiness with the "establishment." As…
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The cloud over our economic future
The United States will decide its economic future in the next presidential election. And it appears that it will choose a bad…
