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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-06-21

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! This past week, the Fed chairman and other Fed governors finally acknowledged what many of us have been writing and saying for months — and that is the…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-06-07

“Science” is a variable, not a constant. “Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systemic methodology based…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-05-31

According to The Babylon Bee: “World-renowned fact-checking website Snopes has unveiled a brand new fact check rating called ‘False For Now.’ This will allow them to provide a rating…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-05-24

Should all able-bodied adults take whatever jobs are available? At the moment, there are more job openings than there are people willing to take them.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-05-17

Did you receive 4.2% interest (the inflation rate) on your bank account this past year? More likely it was under 2%, on which you had to pay “income” tax, even though you lost money in…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-05-10

Bad perceptions can lead to very poor public policy. As reported by Health Care News, a recent poll found that young adults “overstated their risk of dying from COVID-19 by as much as…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-05-03

The principled are often ridiculed as not being pragmatic, when in fact most often, over the long run, sticking with solid principles is highly pragmatic.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-04-26

Yes indeed, many of our political leaders are ignorant who unnecessarily damage both our pocketbooks and even our lives.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-04-19

Last week, an ad appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and perhaps elsewhere, “signed” by 100 companies and several thousand individuals.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-04-12

In 2020, a great global pandemic descended upon the Earth. It not only affected people’s bodies, leading to death in many of the elderly, but also caused the global political class to…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-04-05

How much should the U.S. spend on infrastructure projects? President Biden has just proposed to have the government spend approximately $2 trillion dollars on “infrastructure” projects.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-03-29

Why would an insurance company pay a private meteorological company a fee to provide them with information — about the likelihood of a hurricane landfall and severity and timing in a…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-03-22

On average, people live longer in richer and freer countries than they do in poor ones. Knowing this, does it make sense to deliberately make a country poorer?
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-03-15

The new Congress seems intent on passing laws that will result in massive civil disobedience.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2021-03-08

The numbers show — feeling that you are less free is not an illusion.
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