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The Chicago Fed National Activity Index Posts Another Weak Month
The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index posted its third negative result in a row, but the index remains above levels historically associated with either recession or...
- Mar 25, 2019More Articles
The Slogan that Unleashed this Hell
In 1969, the salad days of New Left activism, a writer named Carol Hanisch penned an essay that the editor called “The Personal Is Political.” She was seeking to explain the ethos of the...
- Mar 24, 2019
The Tragic Trade-Off of Centralized Policy
Progressives have a “complexity problem,” writes law professor Tim Wu in the New York Times:
In recent decades progressives have not prioritized making policies and programs easy for...
- Mar 22, 2019
France Is the Socialist Future We Should Dread
A lot of attention and ink are being poured these days in trying to explain to a generation of voters why socialism always fails. Not only does socialism always fail to deliver the...
- Mar 22, 2019
The Case for Prepaid Debit Cards
Jerry Brito recently published a paper entitled “The Case for Electronic Cash.” He argues that peer-to-peer forms of payment like banknotes and cryptocurrency are essential to modern...
- Mar 21, 2019
Philadelphia-Area Manufacturing Survey Remains Positive
The results of the Philadelphia Fed’s Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey was generally favorable in March. In general, respondents were more upbeat about current conditions but...
- Mar 21, 2019
Golden Eggs and the Challenge of Our Time
Can we get capitalism’s golden goose to lay more eggs, and do so soon enough to avoid the Washington-planned economy that many now envision? That appears to be a key question in 2019.
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- Mar 21, 2019Programs
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