TweetIn my latest column for AIER I express my utter distaste for politicians and their con games. A slice: Politicians’ practice of calling each of us targeted voters by our first names, and of suggesting that we should think of each of them as people who we know on a first-name basis, is meant to […]

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11.09.2024

Yet Another Open Letter to Donald Trump - Cafe Hayek

TweetMr. Donald J. Trump Mr. Trump: Speaking yesterday in Wisconsin you complained that some countries might soon stop using the dollar as a global reserve currency. You also repeated your frequent grievance that America consistently runs trade deficits. Your unawareness of the gross contradiction in your twin gripes is alarming. A major contributor to American […]

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11.09.2024

Quotation of the Day... - Cafe Hayek

Tweet… is from page 177 of the 2012 revised edition of Steven Landsburg’s great 1993 book, The Armchair Economist: It is said that figures don’t lie, but liars figure. Perhaps a more serious problem is that honest people figure carelessly. The antidote is careful attention to exactly what is being measured, and how it differs […]

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11.09.2024

Some Links - Cafe Hayek

TweetGMU Econ alum Alexander Salter explains that Kamala Harris’s “joy would cost US dearly.” Two slices: American progressives are out of ideas. Instead of a bold economic agenda, all they have to offer is reruns of policy failures. Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent proposals are notable examples. Behind the facade of joy hides an alarming […]

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