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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-05-13

One hundred years ago, the Germans suffered horrible hyperinflation. From a value of 4.2 to the dollar in 1914, the German mark depreciated to 4.2 trillion to the dollar by November…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-05-06

Do you just whine about problems, or do you try to solve them? For decades, many people complained and demanded that the government do something about automobile air pollution.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-04-29

They have learned nothing! As I write this, Columbia University and others continue in chaos, depriving serious students of what they have paid for.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-04-22

Money laundering most often refers to attempts to hide the criminal source of money. But it can also be used to describe making legal money transfers between parties deliberately so…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-04-15

Why do the smartest people in the world (at least in their own minds) keep getting surprised?
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-04-08

Why is Honduras so much poorer than the U.S. and even most of its Latin American neighbors? I posed that question to a friend who is originally from Honduras and is now a U.S. citizen.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-04-01

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” — H.L. Mencken
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-03-25

The U.S. and other rich countries are increasingly funding their government debts by sucking savings from those in poorer countries.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-03-18

Greece, Argentina, and the old Soviet Union had governments that were Ponzi schemes that eventually went bust.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-03-11

Mystery solved. What has President Biden been doing in the unusual amount of time he spends without anything on his schedule?
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-03-04

Inflation is a deadly problem, and unpredictable changes in the inflation rate (currency debasement) make it an even more deadly hazard to future economic well-being by increasing the…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-02-26

Perhaps the single largest wealth destruction in history took place last week, due to the actions of only two people: New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-02-19

Iran may already have five nuclear bombs and may have as many as a dozen by May. Some intelligence estimates, as early as this past October, asserted that Iran could have enough…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-02-12

The U.S. and the world are at great risk because the president has some cognitive impairment and the vice president is unqualified.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-02-05

Forty years ago, Harvard, America’s oldest university, was often ranked the best in the world.
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