Traffic jams are so frequent that many Costa Ricans have adjusted their routines to deal with this phenomenon, treating it like a chronic illness.
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At first glance, it might seem extreme—even offensive—to compare anti-fossil fuel climate policies to Stalin’s deliberate starvation of millions during the Holodomor. But in truth, the comparison may be unfair—…
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The Federal Reserve System released its May 2025 Beige Book yesterday, and the Fed has stopped painting a cheerful picture of the US economy.
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Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the history behind the myth of “Fed independence.” The Fed has never been politically independent of the US government, and it has…
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Accreditation in higher education began as a private effort to identify academic quality. Then the federal government took over the process and demanded that accreditation be based upon political standards.
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If we really want America to be “great” it must first be free.
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Nominalist ideas influenced the scientific revolution, shaping its departure from metaphysics, its mechanistic perspective, and the mathematization of all sciences. This paradigm has brought about some errors in economic thinking.