Economics

Why We’re All a Lot Richer Than We Realize 15
- Economics, Featured, International, Uncategorized
- July 15, 2025
I welcome the long weekend that comes with Independence Day at the beginning of each July. This year, I relished a slow day with my family and experienced the joys of a summer cookout. Beyond decorations and outfit choices, nothing in my celebration was particularly patriotic, and I gave only a small amount of time
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Financing Your Pizza – the Problem of Modern Decadence 21
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 10, 2025
“It’s the danged avocado toast!” boomers say, blaming that little delectable treat as the reason today’s young people can’t become homeowners. But that $9 avocado toast that a millennial can have delivered to his apartment (a parent-financed apartment, of course) for $5 in delivery fees plus a $2 tip? That’s only part of the story.
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Restore the American Garage 17
- Culture, Economics, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- June 13, 2025
Twitter likes to vilify the large cookie-cutter suburban home with a garage bigger than the house itself. And surely this is in some way a symbol of a decadent, mobile society with little sense of place or community. But the American garage gets too much flack from even those on the right. The house on
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Ballerina Farm, Homesteading, and the Revival of the Family Economy 20
- Culture, Economics, Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized
- April 22, 2025
“Do you work or do you just stay home?” Many mothers have answered this loaded question. It presents, of course, a false dilemma, but one that exemplifies the way our culture thinks about the home and work itself. As summer approaches, my husband and I are spending most of our Saturdays outdoors doing hard manual
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How Trump’s Tariffs Could Enrich Your Home 17
- Culture, Economics, Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 16, 2025
Some of the first effects American consumers will feel from Trump’s tariffs will be in how much harder it will be to purchase the fast, cheap goods that Americans are used to procuring with the click of a button. This particular consequence of added duties on imported goods may be one which has a silver
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The Social Media Jam: Why Too Many Choices Leave Us Feeling Stuck 4
- Economics, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 3, 2025
There’s a famous experiment involving jams. Not problems, and not what old people call music, but the third thing: sweetened and thickened fruit spreads. The experiment famously showed that at some point having additional choices is overwhelming, and actually appears to make people worse off. There were actually three studies, though for some reason the “jam experiment” is
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