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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-01-29

To preserve your wealth, should you invest in stocks, bonds, other financial instruments, gold and silver, real estate, collectibles, or commodities?
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-01-22

An Englishman, a Welshman and a Pakistani arrive at a London hospital to pick up their newborns.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-01-15

There will be a financial meltdown because the present course is unsustainable. As Herb Stein, former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, told us half a century…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-01-08

The Government Accountability Office just announced that the government made $236 billion in “improper payments” in 2023 and more than $2.4 trillion in improper payments since 2003 —…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2024-01-01

It has become acceptable, if not entirely fashionable, for major institutions — such as universities, churches and governments — to not only tolerate but to encourage discrimination…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-12-25

It was the best of times. It was 1999. The U.S. and world economies were booming, and the U.S., for the first time in decades, was running a budget surplus.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-12-18

Who would have thought that what many regarded as the world’s premier educational institution — Harvard — would end up having the worst rating among major universities for free speech?
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-12-11

From the time of the Enlightenment, there has been the widespread belief in equal treatment under the law.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-12-04

Demographers and economists have long known that one indication of the economic and social health of a country or region is whether the population is growing or declining.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-11-27

Many Americans are in a sour mood when it comes to the economy, yet the Biden administration argues that things have never been better — with something close to full employment and the…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-11-22

As we sit down to enjoy Thanksgiving today, it is worth noting that it has been 234 years since George Washington first proclaimed it a national holiday to give thanks for our bounty…
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-11-13

Many people, including virtually all Republicans, properly view President Ronald Reagan as a great success.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-10-30

The good news was that the gross domestic product report came in higher than expected at 4.9% for the third quarter.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-10-23

“If, as it appears, the election will come down to Trump vs. Biden, the U.S. is headed for a constitutional crisis and the social and political chaos that implies.
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byRichard W. Rahn | 2023-10-16

Each morning, we wake up and turn on the news, thinking things cannot get worse — but they do. From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most things have gone downhill.
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