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Predictions have always been fraught with perils. Gauging the future is tricky business, a business filled with well-meaning and serious commentators drowned out by pranksters and ideologically committed imbeciles. Despite being wholly unequipped for the task of divining the future, most political pundits and financial...

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetGeorge Mason University alums Phil Magness and Steve Miller, writing in the Wall Street Journal, find further credible evidence against Emmanuel Saez’s and Gabriel Zucman’s incredible claim that high-income Americans pay income taxes at lower rates than do lower-income Americans. Here’s Phil’s and...

These are extremely stressful times for the world economy, particularly financial markets, which have fallen into bear-market territory. The possibility of recession, however temporary, is upon us. Everyone blames the prospect of pandemic disease. That’s a correct diagnosis as regards the precipitating factor. But economics...

Laissez-faire has become a dirty word. Today it serves as shorthand for a soulless, anything-goes approach to life in which government makes no contribution to a thriving economy and the market is the solution to every problem. The term’s origin, however, suggests...

A new California law is supposed to help millions of freelancers by dictating that they be hired as employees. ---- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg ---- “It makes sure that the 1 million independent contractors in California get the wages and benefits...

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet…… is from page 36 of Steven Landsburg’s excellent 2019 volume, The Essential Milton Friedman: In a capitalist society, you can turn to anyone who’s willing to fund you. You can appeal to the grass roots, but that in turn might require some funds to...

Here are five videos for your weekend viewing. Enjoy! 1. Video of the Day I (above) is “EV Dreams” from the Clear Energy Alliance, here’s the description: Are “emissions free” electric vehicles inevitable? No, they’re not. In spite of the propaganda, EVs have big problems. They...