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Great Barrington · Great BarringtonDillingham Immigration Commission, 1924. One hundred years ago, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a new immigration bill. While relatively uncontroversial in the United States — it had passed the Senate 69-9 and the House 308-62 — the Immigration Act had a global impact. The bill’s genesis was a study completed by the Dillingham Commission, formed by President Theodore Roosevelt to study and identify which immigrants would …See the Story
Japanese Immigrant Exclusion: 100 Years Later
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Federal Reserve · Great BarringtonSeal of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System. Some critics of the Federal Reserve argue that central bankers manipulate the market whenever they adjust interest rates. For example, in an article in the Wall Street Journal, monetary economist Judy Shelton writes, “When the Fed tightens by raising interest rates, its goal is to increase borrowing costs.” She contends that the Fed’s approach is mistaken: “Interest rates shouldn…See the Story
Is The Fed Manipulating the Market?
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Great Barrington · Great BarringtonEnhancements in automobile safety are among the best-known examples of the substitution effect. Economics undergraduates learn early on — in their second microeconomics course if not in their very first — the importance of distinguishing substitution effects from income effects. Although jargony, this distinction is important. Without it, a great deal of real-world economic phenomena are misdiagnosed. Non-economists readily understand income ef…See the Story
Substitution Effects and Steering-Wheel Daggers
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Charlie Baker · Great BarringtonParents and the Great Schools Massachusetts Coalition join then-Governor Charlie Baker to rally for more public charter schools. In The Parent Revolution, Corey A. DeAngelis offers a compelling narrative that champions the transformative power of universal school choice in reshaping the American educational landscape. His detailed exposition on how school choice, especially through education savings accounts (ESAs), can fundamentally alter the …See the Story
Unleashing Educational Freedom: A Blueprint for Future Generations
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Great Barrington · Great BarringtonBlast furnace smelting liquid steel in a steel mill. Economist Thomas Sowell once remarked: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” This statement underscores the perpetual tension between economic principles and political expediency, a tension vividly exemplified in the realm of trade policy. Mu…See the Story
Importing Votes, Not Steel
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Great Barrington · Great BarringtonChildren conform to Hitler’s protocol in East Westphalia-Lippe, 1930s. In The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek called cultural historian and philosopher Moeller van den Bruck “the patron saint of National Socialism.” Hayek quoted him describing the fierce opposition of German youth to liberalism: “Liberalism is a philosophy of life from which German youth now turns with nausea, with wrath, with quite peculiar scorn, for there is none more foreign, m…See the Story
Illiberal Youth Threaten Freedom
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Fishermen · Great BarringtonFishermen haul their catch near a fishery in Goa, India. 2016. Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It is our “moral debt.” She proposes an international 2-percent wealth tax on the ultra-rich and an increase in the global minimum corporate tax rate to fund this $500 billion transfer. You and I may be shocked by such a sugge…See the Story
Climate “Reparations” Numbers Are Rigged
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Poverty · Great BarringtonThis Tax Increment Financing (TIF) designated community in Atlanta’s Westside now boasts a $1.6 billion stadium — and a 49 percent poverty rate. 2020. Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution prohibits states from interfering with trade or inhibiting free commerce. But over the last half-century, we’ve witnessed the transfer of what some call tyrannical powers from the federal government to local governments. Tyranny, large or small, is un…See the Story
Every Village a Republic
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