By Emiliana Vegas 1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on humanity worldwide cannot be overstated. To date, over 6 million deaths across the globe have been documented. Economic growth globally...

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published a report that encourages the use of a global digital identity program for persons and objects. The report...

Fannie Mae forecasts a “modest recession in the latter half of 2023” and believes the house-buying frenzy will begin to cool in the US. The Federal Reserve’s hawkish direction to...

ASIA: OPEC’s share of India’s oil imports for the 2021/22 financial year remained almost flat year on year, arresting sharp declines over the past six years, as refiners snapped up...

We cannot even donate $10,000 to a political candidate, but if you are Mark Zuckerberg, you can help to manipulate elections. He was able to prevent the break up of...

Closed societies can always become wealthier by trading. Perhaps the most dramatic illustration of growth through trade was realized by Japan after the Meiji restoration in 1868, ending the Tokugawa...

Reprinted from Law & Liberty Last November, Alasdair MacIntyre stirred controversy in a talk on human dignity, which he calls “a puzzling and possibly dangerous idea.” Predictably, the talk provoked a...

Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance fell slightly, decreasing 2,000 for the week ending April 16, coming in at 184,000 (see first chart). Claims continue to bounce around week...

For anyone who hasn’t read Deirdre McCloskey’s voluminous Bourgeois trilogy, I invite you to look at it and seriously consider her arguments. To summarize her account (I promise I’m not...