Art Carden
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Budgets/Taxes
Price Gouging Laws Are Knowledge Embargoes That Should Be Repealed
by Art Carden September 3, 2019Category 4 Hurricane Dorian, with winds reaching 140 miles per hour, is creeping toward Florida.
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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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Bernie Sanders is having trouble with his unionized–and apparently underpaid–labor force.
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The record of theory and history shows that socialist planning is an impossible task.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
LaCroix Cartels Are Unlikely, But Be Mindful of How Regulations Affect Incentives
by Art Carden June 26, 2019Consumer Reports recently discovered that LaCroix’s parent company, National Beverage Corps, doesn’t have the permits required to sell LaCroix in Massachusetts.
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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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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
In Defense of Blowouts: People Respond to Incentives, Even on the Soccer Field
by Art Carden June 17, 2019There’s the simple fact that scoring a goal in the World Cup fulfills a lifelong dream for the players. Who wouldn’t be overjoyed?
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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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Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15%
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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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My recent article arguing that we should cut federal subsidies to Amtrak got some very interesting and useful feedback on social media with at least one reader making the point that the highways and the airways are also very heavily subsidized by governments at all levels.
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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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It’s time to pull the plug on Amtrak–or at least the taxpayer subsidies that prop it up.