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02 Aug What is EconInbox?

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Check out EconInbox, our weekly email chock full of news articles, videos, and more. We pair them with classroom activities and send them in sync with your syllabus. Learn more: https://EconInbox.com Ever seen your students light up when they discover the real-world applications of economics?...

02 Aug The Future Will Be Weirder Than We Think

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How weird is the future going to be? Just a little bit — or plain flat-out radically unthinkably weird? And is this future 1,000 years from now — or 100?The notion that the future will be weirder than we think, and come sooner, is a...

02 Aug A Liberal Pop Star Just Condemned Socialist Tyranny in Cuba

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When celebrities weigh in on politics, the result is usually vapid virtue-signaling and surface-level liberal talking points. But pop star Camila Cabello just offered an exception to this rule with her stirring and personal denunciation of the socialist tyranny in Cuba. The Biden-supporting singer posted an Instagram live...

02 Aug Bringing Money Under the Rule of Law

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For most of human history, money has always been something that the government has had a hand in managing. State control over the money supply today stands at unprecedented levels with the advent of central banking institutions like the Federal Reserve and the embrace of...

02 Aug Why We Study History | Highlights Ep.25

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In 1941, American novelist John Dos Passos wrote, “In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.” The study of American...

30 Jul Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 14 of Thomas Sowell’s superb 1981 volume, Ethnic America: A History: Nothing has so vindicated the untapped potential of ordinary people as the American experience. DBx: Pictured here is Madame C.J. Walker – born to parents who were enslaved, she became...

29 Jul Covid-19 and the Inefficiency of State Coercion

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An article by legal scholar Richard Epstein published in the Hoover Institution’s Defining Ideas defends George Mason University professor Todd Zywicki who is challenging his university’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate (“The Uneasy Case for Universal Vaccinations,” July 27, 2021). Epstein presents economic and constitutional arguments against...

29 Jul Scientific Authoritarianism Erodes Private Property and Human Liberty

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“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.”~Hannah Arendt ~ (The Origins...

29 Jul Why Spending Matters in Times of Inflation and High Debt

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A lot of people don't care about the nation's growing debt. Some believe that low interest rates for the foreseeable future essentially means a free lunch for the government. Others believe that no matter what...

29 Jul Living Together with Deep Divides | Discourse

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