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Governments Create Success and Progress

Mark Twain once said: If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. Things have not changed since Mr. Twain’s day regarding newspapers. More fields than news reporting now appear incompetent or deliberately deceptive. The economics profession would likely find itself the target of Twain’s acerbic [...]

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Economists

Bill Bonner always provides insightful articles. Here he deals with economists in a non-flattering way. Readers of this blog know that I agree with virtually everything he says below. I have likened much of the profession to prostitutes in the sense that they sold out their principles for the grants, prestige and income available to [...]

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