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Germany's Nuclear Choice: Russian Energy Crisis Forces a Reckoning

The EnvironmentProgressivismWar and Foreign Policy

Blog08/23/2022

Not long ago, Germany's politicians were proudly phasing out nuclear power. Facing a harsh winter without Russian natural gas, the atom suddenly seems like a good alternative.

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Is a Recession Simply a Decline in GDP? What Does That Mean?

Booms and BustsEconomic PolicyInflationBusiness Cycles

Blog08/22/2022

The "official" definition of a recession is a two-consecutive-quarter decline in GDP, but there are problems with GDP measurement in the first place.

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Leonard Read Really Did Know Beans about Labor

Bureaucracy and RegulationFree MarketsLabor and Wages

Blog08/22/2022

Despite the decree from the federal government that labor is not a "commodity" or an "article of commerce," Leonard Read knew better.

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Rethinking Climate Change: Are the Apocalyptic Models Wrong?

The EnvironmentStrategy

Blog08/20/2022

We are regularly being told that we are in a "climate crisis." But what if that isn't true? What if CO2 actually is good for the greening of the planet?

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Is College Worth It?

EducationStrategy

Blog08/19/2022

Whether you need college in today's world of unlimited digital information is exceedingly subjective.

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Money Is Not Wealth, nor Is Wealth Natural Resources

Economic FreedomMonetary PolicyProperty RightsSocialism

Blog08/19/2022

Development economists often confuse natural resources with wealth and then are puzzled when countries rich in resources experience widespread poverty. Free markets lead to creation of wealth, period.

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Should Libertarians Get behind States Waging "Humanitarian" Wars?

War and Foreign Policy

Blog08/19/2022

Fernando R. Tesón is all mixed up. He thinks libertarians' principled nonaggression ties their hands in the face of violence against others and that this limitation extends to good-guy states.

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