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Sep 11, 2024
"Politicians' first-name basis... is a mercenary maneuver to gain our confidence on the cheap. It is literally a con game. ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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Aug 22, 2024
"If other governments insist on harming their countries’ economies with such interventions, that’s their business. We can pity the citizens of those countries." ~Donald J....
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Aug 16, 2024
"Protectionist subsidy of American EV producers necessarily diverts resources away from other industries in the US. What is the value of the production that declines in America...
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Aug 1, 2024
"Many of today’s low-income workers will be tomorrow’s middle-income workers; and many of these workers will be among the country’s highest-income earners sometime in the...
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Jul 25, 2024
"The negative connotation conveyed by the term 'trade deficit' is so very useful to the protectionist cause that protectionists seem to have no interest in getting their — or their...
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Jul 4, 2024
Among the most useful questions to have ready at hand is “What if?” Unable to see the future — for the future isn’t yet created — we nevertheless are...
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Jun 27, 2024
"Those of us who want to keep government small and strictly limited — and, hence, who want individuals to make whatever peaceful choices they wish — are far outnumbered by...
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Jun 10, 2024
"Evidence from America’s past... lends no support to those who insist that, absent higher tariffs and subsidies, America will probably be unable to maintain the industrial might...
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May 31, 2024
"Conservatives should be among the first to recognize that the struggle for political power when the state enforces concrete moral codes is destined to lead either to tyranny or to...
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May 16, 2024
"Because of substitution effects, we should always be aware that outcomes quite different from those that seem most obvious are possible. Mandating greater automobile safety might...
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May 2, 2024
"Even companies with unusually high net worth cannot, in fact, afford to pay workers more than those workers contribute to the companies’ bottom lines." ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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Mar 21, 2024
"The only sense in which the American middle-class is disappearing economically is that an ever-increasing percentage of American households earn annual incomes that are in the upper...
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Feb 26, 2024
"While both men won the Nobel Prize in economics – Hayek in 1974 and Friedman in 1976 – economists regard the scholarly work of Hayek as differing almost categorically from that...
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Feb 2, 2024
"An individual innovation is small, minuscule even. But it’s real and it improves our standard of living. Yet how many of you have noticed it? Almost none. The market, therefore,...
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Jan 17, 2024
"If each country specializes in its comparative advantage and trades with the other, the people of both countries gain." ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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Jan 5, 2024
"Because in today’s global economy the people with whom we interact economically number literally in the billions, the percentage of these persons with whom we also interact...
Sep 11, 2024"Politicians' first-name basis... is a mercenary maneuver to gain our confidence on the cheap. It is literally a con game. ~Donald J. Boudreaux
Aug 22, 2024"If other governments insist on harming their countries’ economies with such interventions, that’s their business. We can pity the citizens of those countries." ~Donald J....
Aug 16, 2024"Protectionist subsidy of American EV producers necessarily diverts resources away from other industries in the US. What is the value of the production that declines in America...
Aug 1, 2024"Many of today’s low-income workers will be tomorrow’s middle-income workers; and many of these workers will be among the country’s highest-income earners sometime in the...
Jul 25, 2024"The negative connotation conveyed by the term 'trade deficit' is so very useful to the protectionist cause that protectionists seem to have no interest in getting their — or their...
Jun 27, 2024"Those of us who want to keep government small and strictly limited — and, hence, who want individuals to make whatever peaceful choices they wish — are far outnumbered by...
Jun 10, 2024"Evidence from America’s past... lends no support to those who insist that, absent higher tariffs and subsidies, America will probably be unable to maintain the industrial might...
May 31, 2024"Conservatives should be among the first to recognize that the struggle for political power when the state enforces concrete moral codes is destined to lead either to tyranny or to...
May 16, 2024"Because of substitution effects, we should always be aware that outcomes quite different from those that seem most obvious are possible. Mandating greater automobile safety might...
May 2, 2024"Even companies with unusually high net worth cannot, in fact, afford to pay workers more than those workers contribute to the companies’ bottom lines." ~Donald J. Boudreaux
Mar 21, 2024"The only sense in which the American middle-class is disappearing economically is that an ever-increasing percentage of American households earn annual incomes that are in the upper...
Feb 26, 2024"While both men won the Nobel Prize in economics – Hayek in 1974 and Friedman in 1976 – economists regard the scholarly work of Hayek as differing almost categorically from that...
Feb 2, 2024"An individual innovation is small, minuscule even. But it’s real and it improves our standard of living. Yet how many of you have noticed it? Almost none. The market, therefore,...
Jan 5, 2024"Because in today’s global economy the people with whom we interact economically number literally in the billions, the percentage of these persons with whom we also interact...