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Obama’s War on Women with Elizabeth Banks

Rule 5 Saturday! "While it is true that a wage gap between the sexes does exist, common sense and empirical evidence demonstrate that this difference is due to the various individual choices that men...

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Republicans Love Big Government

One of the most widely-accepted myths in American politics is that the Republican Party champions "limited government." While it may be true that a few outliers exist in the party who support reducing...

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The Fiscal Cliff and Raising Taxes

We're heading toward a fiscal cliff! Are you scared? The mania surrounding the Budget Control Act's January 1 deadline is almost laughable. Especially when you realize that whatever "deal" they manage...

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The Regulators with Samaire Armstrong

Rule 5 Monday! "The problem with government regulation is that you cannot fine-tune the regulations: nor can you perfect the regulatory work force in such a way to make regulation work in anything but...

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Boehner and Obama Want to Raise Your Taxes for Christmas

Hoping to avert the "fiscal cliff" crisis they themselves created, the House of Representatives tried passing "Plan B" — the deal struck between Speaker John Boehner (R) and President Barack Obama (D)...

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! 11 Ways to Get Into the Holiday Spirit Christmas Flap Is Capitalism Ruining Christmas? Deck the Halls with Macro Follies The Economic Lessons of Bethlehem It's Time To Put the Christ...

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Big Agriculture with Alana Blanchard

It's infamous Rule 5 Sunday Tuesday! "[T]he government's food pyramid was not founded on science, but rather, it was based in politics and serving special interests. The food pyramid is a purely...

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Mainstream Fallacies with Piper Perabo

Google disabled my AdSense account because of my Rule 5 posts last week, so I'm going to be making some changes. This post, for example, isn't nearly so risqué as I've posted before. Get the full...

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The Education Bubble with Charlize Theron

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "Whether the student-loan industry is run by the American government or by subsidized lending institutions, the business model is flawed and will continue to force prices upward...

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Peter Schiff vs. Stuart Varney

Pushing tired, old mainstream economic opinion (which was incredibly, uncannily wrong, and still is), Stuart Varney gets schooled by Peter Schiff (who actually understands economics) on the FOX...

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The War on Work with Vanessa Marcil

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "Minimum wage, then, is hardly the innocent idea its supporters suspect it to be. Like all other forms of market intervention, it is hijacked by those with evil intent — those who...

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The Higher-Education Bubble with Rachel Blanchard

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "Like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future. Both whisper a seductive promise into the ears of worried Americans: Do this and...

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Against Student Aid with Heidi Cortez

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "Skyrocketing tuition, high default rates, and pathetic graduation rates — to name a few — are all byproducts of a system that incentivizes inefficiency, largess, and misguided...

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Nullification with Jordana Brewster

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "[T]he voters of Colorado and Washington have placed themselves and their states on equal legal footing with both national and international governments. This is important, because,...

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The Truth about the Collapse of the Soviet Union

This is a fascinating lecture about the collapse of the Soviet Union by Robert Wenzel at the Austrian Economics Research Conference (March 21, 2013). The idea that the Reagan defense buildup somehow...

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“Planning and Democracy” with Shirley Manson

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "It may sound shocking to some, but modern-day America compares "favorably" to fascist Germany of the 1930s with regard to the degree to which the state interferes with and controls...

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“Ersatz Capitalism” with Jane Birkin

It's retro Rule 5 Sunday! "If the monetary central planners have been trying to create jobs through the roundabout method of "wealth effects," they ought to be profoundly embarrassed by their...

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Sound Money with Raquel Welch

More retro Rule 5 Sunday Monday! "[Sound Money] is the system that government does not want us to have, because it provides no special favors for enhancing state power. Sound money shackles the...

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A Giant Ponzi Scheme

"There is no way that a deficit doesn't become a tax increase sometime down the road. We are burying the next generation in debt. They will have to service it." — David Stockman H/T - Stockman on the...

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An Internet Sales Tax with Leslie Bibb

It's Rule 5 Sunday! "Despite the stump rhetoric, the political class is not interested in fostering a vibrant commercial life to help you and me get by in this world. Instead, it is interested in...

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