The Wall Street Journal (the relatively reputable sister company to Fox News) has now broken two stories about porn stars who were paid off by Trump supporters during his presidential campaign shortly before the 2016 election to keep them quiet…
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Gross Output (GO) vs. Gross Domestic Expenditure (GDE) vs. Gross Domestic Transactions (GDT) and why we need to use readily available banking system data to estimate GDT
Mark Skousen is part of the Austrian economics heterodox tradition, and he promoted a measure called Gross Output (GO) as a measure of the economy. Skousen likes to quote Steve Forbes who called it “revolutionary” and such “a big deal”…
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Beer Companies Don’t Care About The Median Drinker
Updated December 20, 2018 Mark Kleiman has done some of the most insightful policy analysis of illegal drugs available. He argues that home grown marijuana should be legal (and polls show that the majority of Americans have agreed for some…
#Pence2018. Why Democrats should not be so happy about the rising Democratic victories
Republicans should want to replace Trump with Pence because Trump is a polarizing figure who is inspiring a flood of donations to Democrats and a wave of Democrat-dominated special elections is already signaling how Trump has energized the Democratic party…
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#Pence2018: Pence to meet with North Koreans
Alex Ward reports: Vice President Mike Pence suggested he might be open to meeting with North Korean officials while he’s in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics… Such a meeting would represent a potentially major diplomatic breakthrough amid Washington’s ongoing nuclear…
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#Pence2018: How evangelical Christians can redeem their political souls and restore honor for themselves and all of America.
Stephen Mansfield is a conservative Christian who did not support Trump, and he wrote a new book, Choosing Donald Trump, that tries to understand why eighty-one percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. Mansfield gave an interview to Sean Illing…
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#Pence2108 for Republicans
In Trump’s state of the union address, he offered no concrete plans for dealing with any of the nation’s problems except his plan to reduce immigration. How that is supposed to help with infrastructure, healthcare costs, the opiate epidemic, North…
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