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The Lighthouse: Inflation Tax | Milei Outdoes Newsom | Rich Kids Protest

12-6-2024 < Attack the System 101 318 words
 

The Inflation Tax

John C. Goodman (Forbes)


The easiest way to raise taxes? Let inflation rip. The more inflation, the more government gains—ordinary people lose as a result. READ MORE »












On Monetary Growth and Inflation in Leading Economies, 2021-2022

Relative Prices and the Overall Price Level


By Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE





Javier Milei Shows Newsom and Biden How It’s Done

K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Spectator)


California’s Gov. Newsom should take a cue from Argentina’s Javier Milei. He took over a nation in worse financial straits than California—then reduced state spending, cut in half the number of government ministries, and halted new infrastructure projects. It’s working. READ MORE »
WATCH: Can Milei Succeed? Argentina at the Start of a New Era




Rich Students Disproportionally Play the Radical: Should We Fund Elite Universities?

Richard K. Vedder (Minding the Campus)


Why are the most disruptive pro-Palestinian protests, with the most troubling anti-Semitic overtones, concentrated at the richest campuses, led by the most privileged students? Why are we (and big donors) subsidizing these shenanigans? READ MORE »
WATCH: Is Higher Ed Going Off the Rails?




Finding a Foreign Policy Beyond Biden and Trump

Ivan Eland (Responsible Statecraft)


There has to be a better alternative to the hawkish internationalism of Biden and Trump’s equally aggressive Jacksonian nationalism. A newfound modesty and restraint in U.S. foreign policy might be just the ticket. Global economic multipolarity makes this possible—unless we are hooked on self-assertion. READ MORE »












In Search of Monsters to Destroy

The Folly of American Empire
and the Paths to Peace


By Christopher J. Coyne




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