Economics

Ballerina Farm, Homesteading, and the Revival of the Family Economy 8
- 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 12
- 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 2
- 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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Make Government Efficient Again?7
- Economics, Featured, Politics
- November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has wasted no time since election day, having already announced a string of cabinet appointments—including Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Elise Stefanik as United Nations ambassador, and Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. But if there is one appointment that will really shake things up
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Does the American Dream Really Cost $4.4 Million?1
- Culture, Economics, Featured
- October 18, 2024
Is the American Dream still possible? As inflation continues to bloat prices, we hear this question bandied about with increasing frequency. The answer depends a lot on how we define the “American Dream.” Investopedia’s version of the dream costs some $4.4 million over a lifetime—a figure that may place it out of reach for many
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Fake Government Statistics 1
- Economics, Featured, Politics
- September 30, 2024
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently admitted that 818,000 fewer jobs were added from March 2023 to March 2024 than previously reported. That’s no small number, and it’s an indication of how significant the issues with government statistics are. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only time that government agencies have misrepresented vital economic statistics. Though jobs
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