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Have You Made Your Peace With Free Trade?

Commentary In 1796, the first U.S. President George Washington gave an impassioned farewell address. It summed up what he hoped would be U.S. foreign policy as regards both economics and wars. “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations,” he said, “is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them…


What Does It Mean to Have a Soft Landing?

Commentary Economic language is packed with metaphors. It would be sunk without them. The economy is overheating. It’s depressed. It’s recessed. It’s hot. It’s cooling. It hit the skids. It’s in free fall. We’d better put on the brakes! Housing is underwater. This stock is headed to the moon. Inflation is easing. The Fed is…


The Desperate Need to Restore Community

Commentary In 2019, I published what many people then told me was my best book: “The Market Loves You.” It was a reflection on C.S. Lewis’s “four loves” in light of commercial society. One of these loves involves friendship, association, and appreciation for another, and the sense of trust that comes from a routine experience of…


Business Fails When Distracted

One of the most famous articles in economics, written by Milton Friedman and published in The New York Times, states: “The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned ‘merely’ with profit but also with promoting desirable ‘social’ ends; that business has a ‘social conscience’ and takes…


Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


PREMIERING NOW: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


PREMIERING 3/2 at 7:30PM ET: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


Opposition Warns Australian Self-Funded Retirees Over Labor Superannuation Plan

Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton has warned that any plans by Labor to raise superannuation tax would be “detrimental” to Australians’ retirement plans. The comment comes after Treasurer Jim Chalmers hinted at a cap on super balances over $3 million in the May budget, saying it will make super concessions more “affordable and sustainable.” If…


Research Shows Beijing Expanding Influence Over Chinese Companies Through Managerial Incentives

A think tank of top U.S. strategic and economic analysts presented research on Feb. 7 showing the method through which China’s government has expanded its influence over the nation’s companies. A panel led by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) researchers Curtis Milhaupt and Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin discussed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is methodically increasing…