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  • The Double-edged Sword of Economic Sanctions Against Venezuela

    The Double-edged Sword of Economic Sanctions Against Venezuela0

    Venezuela is going through one of the worst economic crises of the last century. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Venezuela’s GDP has fallen nearly 50 percent since 2014. To understand the magnitude of Venezuela’s economic downturn, Spain’s GDP fell by 30 percent… during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s! In other words, a

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  • How Government-Guaranteed Student Loans Killed the American Dream for Millions

    How Government-Guaranteed Student Loans Killed the American Dream for Millions0

    In Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell wrote that prices are what tie together the vast network of economic activity among people who are too vastly scattered to know each other. Prices are the regulators of the free market. An object’s value in the free market is not how much it costs to produce, but rather how

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  • The Coming Socialist President?

    The Coming Socialist President?0

    Lately we have seen numerous conservative commentators posit the thesis that the Democrats are disqualifying themselves from a 2020 presidential victory by lurching too far left on key economic and social issues. The idea is that the American people simply aren’t prepared to follow the Democrats into the leftist territory that seems to be their

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  • The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

    The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’4

    In 1971, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with “no heaven,” “no hell,” “no religion,” and “nothing to kill or die for.” Thirty-six years later, the piano on which he wrote that iconic anthem embarked on a “symbolic road trip for peace” that took it to sites of violence and persecution around the

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  • ‘Is It OK to Still Have Children?’

    ‘Is It OK to Still Have Children?’0

    • February 26, 2019

    Is it morally permissible to have children? That question – which should have gone out with “What’s your sign?” or “Who shot J.R.?” in the 1980s – has come roaring back in a United States in which the birthrate continually hits new lows. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked the question in a video she posted on social media this weekend. AOC fears

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  • New York State Budget Director on the ‘Fundamental Ignorance’ That Killed the Amazon Deal

    New York State Budget Director on the ‘Fundamental Ignorance’ That Killed the Amazon Deal0

    New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica is not pleased his state is missing out on Amazon’s second headquarters. In an open letter that ran on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s page, Mujica explained what the loss would mean to the state: As just about everyone in this state, if not the country, knows by now, Amazon

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