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Moralizing Markets: Vatican Bank Wades into Faith-Based Indexing
Markets have long been accused of lacking morality. On February 10, the Vatican decide…
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Moralizing Markets: Vatican Bank Wades into Faith-Based Indexing
Markets have long been accused of lacking morality. On February 10, the Vatican decided to supply one. The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR),…
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Tariffs and the New Economic Lysenkoism
Kevin Hassett’s recent call to “discipline” Federal Reserve researchers over a New York Fed study on tariffs is not just a political swipe. It is a …
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Delayed Data Unlikely to Resolve Disagreements at Fed
Delayed data confirms inflation remained well above target in December. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Feder…
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Rents, AI, and Commodity Prices: What Drove State-Level Growth in 2024?
Measuring state-level prices with adequate precision requires a lot of data collection, and there’s always a long lag between the time period measure…
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Return to Reality: The Economy is Pivoting Amid Digital Overload
By the time Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning hit theaters last May, the marketing narrative had become as famous as the franchise itself. T…
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Mises and Hayek: Two Complementary Critiques of Central Planning
Introduction Central planning — the idea that an economy can be rationally directed from the top down — has long appealed to reformers who seek to e…
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The Capitalism ‘Stranger Things’ Runs On — But Pretends Not to Like
The finale of Stranger Things leaves viewers with an emotional cocktail: relief, nostalgia, bittersweet satisfaction — and perhaps confusion. What b…
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