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America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Chronic absenteeism is defined as a student missing 10 percent of classes, roughly 18…
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America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Chronic absenteeism is defined as a student missing 10 percent of classes, roughly 18 days in a typical school year. About one in five American kids…
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Fauci Didn’t Create Faucism. He Exposed It
In a 2021 AIER essay, “ Liberating Yourself from Faucism ,” I wrote: “The issue isn’t Anthony Fauci’s failings. The problem is Faucism, the fantasti…
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Bessent vs. Druckenmiller: Bond Vigilantes versus Bond Bureaucrats
The dispute between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Stanley Druckenmiller is more important than a technical disagreement over Treasury buybac…
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Put Money on It? The Social Value of Prediction Markets
Many years ago I came into the habit of offering (and taking) bets on absolutely everything. Conversationally, it could be anything from factual and…
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With Energy Prices Falling, Inflation Has Nowhere to Hide
Prices resumed rising in July, and this time energy had nothing to do with it. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index ( PCEPI ), the …
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Postliberalism Gets the ‘Common Good’ Wrong
Major news outlets and publications have devoted significant attention to the rise of “post-liberalism,” a political and ideological movement in …
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‘A Deal Written in Pencil’: Tariffs Are Erasing America’s Credibility
Hours after the trade negotiations collapsed and the United States imposed a 50-percent tariff on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods on A…
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