Art Carden
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLiberty
Free Market Think Tank Crackdown Is A Setback For Freedom
by Art Carden August 30, 2019Chinese economic liberalization has been responsible for the biggest mass movement out of extreme poverty in human history.
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A new paper forthcoming in the journal American Economic Review: Insights estimates the effect of trade with China on American consumers and shows us what we stand to lose if we don’t end the trade war.
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The record of theory and history shows that socialist planning is an impossible task.
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Budgets/Taxes
Are Intelligent Machines Coming for Your Job and Your Wages?
by Art Carden July 11, 2019A specter haunts Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world: the specter of massive technological unemployment and, therefore, widespread immiseration.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/Energy
Do “Food Deserts” Explain the Nutrition Gap? Maybe Not, Say Researchers
by Art Carden June 22, 2019People with higher incomes eat healthier diets than people with low incomes. Why? Some people blame “food deserts” without grocery stores.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
The Ultimate Absurdity: Green New Deal Would Not Provide Significant Climate Benefits
by Art Carden June 20, 2019The Green New Deal (GND) has been costed at almost $100 trillion by very knowledgeable experts, or about half of total gross national product over the ten years involved.
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FeaturedGovernment
With Some Help from a Great Economist, Would Thanos Have Had a Different Endgame? (SPOILER)
by Art Carden June 5, 2019It’s done: one month and twenty-two movies later, my kids and I have watched all of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe/”Avengers” series, from the original Iron Man through Avengers: Endgame.
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Watch for this phrase in your social media feeds: “these people.”
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GovernmentLiberty
Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” Shows Us That There’s More to Life Than Money
by Art Carden May 9, 2019On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates—or fails to navigate—the New York architecture scene.
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Higher education is So Hot Right Now.
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83 years ago, one of the most forceful and thoughtful defenders of a free society was born.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernment
Do Amtrak and Airport Subsidies Make America Richer?
by Art Carden April 1, 2019Before we look at the easy-to-see benefits and conclude that subsidies are good for economic development, we need to make sure we’re counting all the costs.
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Bankers are economic vampires who take, take, take, and give nothing in return.