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The Democrats Committed Suicide This Year

AUSTIN – As of this writing, Donald Trump has received about 75.1 million votes in the US presidential election, and Kamala Harris about 71.8...

James K. Galbraith

AUSTIN – One can only admire Elon Musk for the candid nihilism of his belief that Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs, deportations, and spending cuts...

AUSTIN – Google “shamanism” and you will find that it is “a tradition of part-time religious specialists who establish and maintain...

TOWNSHEND, VT – Economic theory exists to underpin and guide economic policy – and so it has done since the days of the mercantilists and the...

AUSTIN – The stock market crash is – perhaps – the long-awaited signal of a US economic slump. For President Joe Biden’s administration and...

SIRACUSA, ITALY – At a recent “summit” in Berlin, prominent center-left economists announced a “new consensus” on industrial policy. Their...

AUSTIN – When assessments of the quasi-inflation of 2021-22 appeared in major US media outlets this month, the prognosis was good: the fever has...