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Big Alcohol’s Monopoly Isn’t Worth Breaking Up

Sometimes monopolies are best left alone. That’s often the case when they aren’t harming consumers, but it can also be true when they are — for...

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The Best Business Books Aren’t Actually About Business

Here is a question I once asked myself while browsing in a modest-sized bookstore, one of my favorite things to do: If I had to read all the books in...

03.06.2024 20

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A Little Regulation Is Just What Crypto Needs

Sometimes industries want to be regulated. It’s not that they favor all of the associated restrictions, but that regulation means legitimation. The...

28.05.2024 10

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Dollarization or Not, Argentina’s Future Will Be Expensive

The good news is that President Javier Milei seems to be backing away from plans to dollarize the Argentine economy. That is also the bad news....

23.05.2024 20

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The AI ‘Safety Movement’ Is Dead

May 2024 will be remembered as the month that the AI safety movement died. It will also be remembered as the time when the work of actually making...

21.05.2024 30

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Could a $70,000 Baby Bonus Solve South Korea’s Fertility Crisis?

As the global fertility crisis continues to accelerate, so does anxiety over what to do about it. A smaller world population may be fine in the...

16.05.2024 40

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Labor’s Declining Share Is Worrisome and Mysterious

There is some bad news afoot for workers. Labor’s share of the US gross domestic product has been falling for a long time, by seven percentage...

13.05.2024 50

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Apple’s Influence Has Peaked, But Its Products Haven’t

Apple unveiled a record stock buyback plan last week even as it increased its dividend by 4%, to 25 cents per share. That made the market happy, and...

09.05.2024 50

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No, Low-Skilled Immigrants Don’t Cost Taxpayers Money

It’s not often that Paul Krugman and Donald Trump agree. But the Nobel-prize-winning economist and former (and future?) president have both...

07.05.2024 30

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Economists Aren’t the Best at Predicting the Economy

Sometimes the best way to understand the future is to look to the past. Out of curiosity, I recently cracked open The American Economy in Transition...

03.05.2024 50

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Trump’s Plans for the Fed Make No Sense, Even for Him

A second Trump administration might be very different from the first, and that includes how the president treats the Fed. Donald Trump complained a...

30.04.2024 50

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Barcelona Is Throwing Tourists Under the Bus

As the summer tourism season approaches, a perennial question arises, and technology is giving it a novel twist: Is a place primarily for those who...

23.04.2024 50

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Ludwig von Mises Is Latin America’s Leading Economist

The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is having a moment, especially in Latin America. Argentine President Javier Milei admires Mises, and he has...

16.04.2024 20

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Red Meat for the Conservative Base

What do some Republicans have against lab-grown meat? Legislatures in Alabama, Arizona, Tennessee and Florida are all considering bans on the sale or...

09.04.2024 30

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Will AI Create More Fake News Than It Exposes?

The best large-language models can already write like humans, especially if prompted properly. Photos and images can be faked at low cost....

06.04.2024 20

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How Can the World Make Immigration Work? Ask Canada

Canada’s population surpassed 40 million last year, recording its highest growth rate since 1957. The vast majority of this growth — 97.6% — was...

02.04.2024 4

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AI Could Have a Surprising Effect on Interest Rates

As improvements in artificial intelligence continue apace, so do questions about how AI will influence economies, asset prices and — the question of...

27.03.2024 20

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Indiana Can’t Make Universities More Conservative With a Law

Indiana’s Republican governor has just signed new law that introduces “intellectual diversity” as a standard for tenure decisions in state...

20.03.2024 20

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Why Is Haiti’s Economy So Much Worse Than Its Neighbor’s?

As Haiti continues its descent into chaos, the Dominican Republic continues to prosper. The two countries share the island of Hispaniola and a lot of...

15.03.2024 30

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Oh Canada, Your Economy Is Better Than You Think

Going against type, some Canadians are being very negative. A chorus of doomsayers is pointing out that by some measures, Canadian per-capita GDP is...

12.03.2024 10

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Ozempic Is Transforming the Health of Denmark’s Economy

From both a biomedical and economic point of view, the success of the new class of weight-loss drugs is something to behold. Not only are they a...

05.03.2024 10

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Has Bidenomics Worked? It's Too Soon to Say

With the US economy booming, the job market growing and inflation retreating, the consensus is near-unanimous: Bidenomics has been vindicated. Allow...

04.03.2024 40

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Open-Source Software Is Worth a Lot More Than You Pay for It

Open-source software may well be the greatest “public good” the market economy has ever produced. What it shows is the power of voluntary social...

26.02.2024 30

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What’s the Future of Advertising? Ask Sora

Sora, a new service from OpenAI that produces one-minute videos in response to a textual prompt, isn’t yet available to the public. But the videos...

21.02.2024 8

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Californians Are Dreaming of Lower Taxes

Some Americans like to mock France and Sweden for their high taxes. Yet California — whose economy is bigger than that of both countries — has...

12.02.2024 5

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Could Henry George’s Land Tax Bring Back Detroit?

Could an economic theory popularized in the 19th century revitalize 21st century Detroit? A lot of economists seem to think so, and I share their...

02.02.2024 10

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AI’s Greatest Danger? The Humans Who Use It

When it comes to artificial intelligence, I am an optimist. In fairness, this may be something of an understatement: Over the past year and a half, I...

25.01.2024 30

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Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

When will the world have its first trillionaire? A recent report from Oxfam International predicts one within a decade, noting that the five...

22.01.2024 9

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Your Child’s Favorite Teacher May Soon Be a Chatbot

Most students have a favorite teacher. In the future, could that teacher be … a chatbot? The answer depends in part on whether AI succeeds in...

17.01.2024 10

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Poorer Countries Will Find It Harder to Get Richer

For the billions of people around the world who live in countries that are not yet fully economically developed, I have some disturbing news: The very...

15.01.2024 10

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Politicians Can’t Rig the Economy Like They Used To

In economics as in life, success sometimes lies in knowing when to discard previous victories. I have in mind something called “political business...

08.01.2024 20

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America Spreads the Wealth — and Redistributes It, Too

I have news for you: The United States is becoming more redistributionist. Whether you like it or not. The broader historical trends show that the US...

05.01.2024 10

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Want to Be Wealthy? You Might Try Therapy

Economists are used to the idea that intervening in concrete ways — spending on development projects, for example, or on social services — can...

03.01.2024 9

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How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?

Last year at this time, 85% of economists in one poll predicted a recession this year — and that was an optimistic take compared to the 100%...

26.12.2023 40

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The French Economy’s Secret Weapon: Bureaucrats

Sometimes the real action is in the dog that didn’t bark. What is striking about the European Union’s pending regulations on artificial...

18.12.2023 10

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Government Secrecy About UFOs Isn’t Always a Bad Thing

There is currently legislation before Congress that, if passed, could be one of the most important laws in US history. The Unidentified Anomalous...

10.12.2023 7

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Europe’s Inflation Was More Painful for the Elderly

The unexpected decline of the rate of inflation in the euro zone, to 2.4% from 10.6% a year ago, will limit the strain on European economies and lower...

05.12.2023 20

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