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Imagine There Are No Countries

“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do,” John Lennon once told us. Ignoring Lennon's grammatical error, that is exactly what University of Wisconsin-Madison…

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Milton Friedman Turns 100

If he were still alive, Milton Friedman would be celebrating his 100th birthday today. I saw him speak a couple times, and even met him…

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Politics In A Nutshell

From Peter Boettke's Living Economics: "Politics is about concentrating benefits on well-organized and well-informed interest groups, and dispersing costs on the unorganized and ill-informed masses."…

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Time To Reform Unfunded Mandates

Congress passed an Unfunded Mandate Reform Act back in 1995, but it is mostly toothless, and needs to be strengthened. Fortunately, help may be on…