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Ted Turner Had Many Passions, Especially Population Control
Judging by the headlines , Ted Turner, who died earlier this month at age 87, will be…
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Ted Turner Had Many Passions, Especially Population Control
Judging by the headlines , Ted Turner, who died earlier this month at age 87, will be remembered as an adventurer and visionary: creator of CNN , an…
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CPI Meets Goodhart's Law: Can Economic Metrics Become Fallacies?
When Henry Hazlitt wrote in Economics In One Lesson that “Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man” he knew what he …
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The Effects of Immigration on Labor Markets
Immigration to the United States is a complex and thorny topic. Setting aside the impact of immigration on American culture and politics, as well as…
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Jerome Powell’s Mixed Legacy: Successes and Shortcomings at the Fed
Jerome Powell’s term as Federal Reserve chair ended Friday, and assessments of his legacy are already rolling in. At Bloomberg, Amara Omeokwe a…
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Mass Transit in the Sky: How Air Travel Went from Elite to Affordable
When I was growing up, the only white-collar worker on either my father’s or mother’s side of our family was my Uncle Malcolm, husband of my mom’s o…
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How Not to Measure AI Productivity
A recent Wall Street Journal report on a workplace trend called “tokenmaxxing” offers a revealing glimpse into some of the confusion attending Amer…
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Headline Inflation Cooled in April, but Core Pressures Picked Up
Headline inflation cooled in April, but not enough to give the Federal Reserve much comfort. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.6 percent last mon…
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