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King of California

…taxpayers with the tab. So these were crony capitalists, not free marketeers. (There’s one point in the book where Boswell says he “sent back” his cotton subsidy check. Yes, he…

Trade policies, stimulus, and tax cuts

…actually accomplish this growth in a way that delivers more specifically to voters other than some vague notion of trickle down from a ‘global free market’. Andrea Hayley writes: Chinese…

How exactly do you create a job?

…their share of sustenance are, by definition, free riders — predators or parasites, or (in many, many cases) pets. All ecosystems have free riders. We have lots. And humans have…

Younger v. Harris ‘Doctrine’

…but instead on the prosecutor’s interference with what the court said was the kids’ parents’ constitutional right to decide, free of state interference, what “ideas of morality and gender roles”…