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Environment/Energy
Fund Managers Predict the Decline of Oil, But We’ve Heard This One Before
by Steve Goreham May 14, 2018World fund managers predict a fall in the value of oil companies.
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Both the U.S. and Australia allow dual citizenship. Many Americans and Australians are dual citizens, many without knowing it, by reason of lineage and place of birth.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Earth Day has Become Polluted by Ideology and Ignorance
by Jeff Stier April 22, 2017In recent years, Earth Day has evolved into an occasion for environmental Cassandras to prophesy apocalypse, dish antitechnology dirt, and proselytize. Passion and zeal routinely trump science, and provability takes a back seat to plausibility.
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EconomicsFeatured
Economic Ideas: David Ricardo on Wealth, Inflation, and Freedom
by Richard Ebeling January 18, 2017David Ricardo (1772-1823) was one of the most influential economic theorists of the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Mann Abandons Science, Will the UK Abandon the Paris Climate Agreement?
by H. Sterling Burnett July 17, 2016While Mann, consigns climate science to the dust bin, many are wondering if the United Kingdom will do the same to the Paris Climate agreement.
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One day, perhaps, the northern people of Europe will be able to enter into a partnership with the southern people. But, until they come to appreciate each other, they should have an affair instead of a marriage.
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Featured
White House Economist Links Land Use Regulations: Housing Affordability and Inequality
by Wendell Cox December 3, 2015There is a growing body of research on the consequences of excessive land use regulation. The connection between excessive land use regulation and losses in housing affordability, has been linked to the doubling or tripling of house prices relative to incomes in places as diverse as Hong Kong, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
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The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has laid bare the woeful state of European defense. For decades Europe has been reliant on an American security blanket, one that has put Europe’s various defense departments to sleep. Putin’s recent belligerence has given them a loud wake-up call. What they will do about the aggression on their frontier remains to be seen.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
ICCC Panel 8 – Costs and Benefits of Renewable Energy
by John Engle July 10, 2014Panel 8 of the 9th International Conference on Climate Change was on the subject of “Costs and Benefits of Renewable Energy.” The panel was focused on the subject of renewable energy, specifically the high cost and potentially devastating economic consequences produced by the federal government’s efforts to replace the current energy sources with renewables.
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This summer’s elections to the European Parliament, the legislative body of the European Union, marked a radical swing against the greater centralization of power in the hands of Eurocrats in Brussels. A great many of the Euroskeptic parties that had big wins were the French National Front and the British United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Other Euroskeptic parties on the continent, in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, and elsewhere, also made out quite well. It was a wake-up call to many European leaders who had been complacent and tried to label Euroskeptics as fringe or extremist. The performance of UKIP in particular, which beat all three mainstream parties in the election, made those labels ridiculous.
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FeaturedLegal AffairsLiberty
Monarchs as Constitutions: Protecting Democratic and Individual Rights Where Laws Fail
by John Engle June 4, 2014As Americans we are blessed to live under a constitutional republican form of government, with lawmakers constrained by the dictates of a founding document that is difficult to change or subvert. The United States Constitution is the prototype of the modern written constitution of so many countries, yet it remains in many ways unsurpassed as an exercise in the construction of a lasting system for the preservation of public order and individual liberty.
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FeaturedLegal AffairsLibertyPolitics
The Rise of European Economic Nationalism
by John Engle May 6, 2014The siren song of independence and national self-determination has sounded once again across Europe. It is a song that holds echoes of a century ago, when the internal force of nationalism convulsed the European empires into world war. Yet, while the song remains the same, the tune has changed.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
Playing Musical Chairs With World Economies
by Wendell Cox November 10, 2013The world’s largest economies seem engaged in something like the children’s game of “musical chairs.”