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byRichard W. Rahn | 2022-01-17

This past week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices rose by 7% during this past year, the highest in 40 years.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2022-01-10

How often have you heard someone say, “We are governed by idiots,” or something to that effect?
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2022-01-03

What is the greatest danger in 2022? Global warming? Inflation? The pandemic? A major war? My answer is the tyranny of the thought police — because, without the ability to engage in…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-12-27

Ukraine is much smaller than Russia in geography, population, per capita economic wealth and military power. Ukrainian leaders have not voiced hostile intent toward Russia.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-12-20

By most counts, 2021 turned out to be another miserable year. COVID-19 is still with us, inflation soared, the foreign policy establishment got everything wrong, particularly…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-12-13

The inflation numbers reported this past week were the highest in nearly forty years. The inflation did not come from “greedy” oilmen who risk their capital and work hard to produce…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-12-06

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” — Herb Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon and President Ford
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-11-30

My commentary last week dealt with the destructive effects of the capital gains tax increase that was part of the House’s Build Back Better (BBB) bill.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-11-22

Would you vote for a tax that frequently taxes people at an effective rate of 100% or more, misallocates investment, reduces economic growth and job creation, often becomes almost…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-11-15

The biggest financial fraud in history is now being inflicted on the American people and others in the form of inflation.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-11-08

The lighter your skin is, the older you get, and the more time you spend in the sun, the more likely you will get skin cancer.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-11-01

Which of the following catastrophic events do you think poses the greatest threat to your family: A new and much more lethal pandemic than COVID-19 19; A mega terrorist event, using…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-10-25

Is the U.S. on a road to destruction? The U.S. became the preeminent economic, political, and military power after the decline of the U.K., with what turned out to be a feeble…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-10-18

People can express displeasure and take action against government policies that they find oppressive or otherwise objectionable without taking to the streets.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-10-11

If a person goes to the hospital in great pain and if the admitting physician misdiagnoses the problem as a heart attack when, in fact, the person is suffering from an acute intestinal…
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