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January 24, 2024  •  Weekly Newsletter
Javier Milei’s Chainsaw Plan and the Five Principles of Oppression

Gabriel Gasave

Five obstacles have prevented Latin America from achieving its potential: corporatism, mercantilism, privilege, bottom-up wealth transfer, and politicized law. Argentine President Milei now has a golden opportunity to cut at least a few of the five wires of this society-destroying machinery. But he must act! Where is his chainsaw?! READ MORE »

A Proposal of Monetary
Reform for Argentina
Flexible Dollarization and Free Banking

The Independent Review, Winter 2014/15

The Hysterical Style in American Politics

Victor Davis Hansen (American Greatness)

The truth is that the progressive movement cannot enact its unpopular agendas. So it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis will do. What, then, can be done to stem the rising tide of fear-induced paranoia from the Left? READ MORE »

Crisis and Leviathan

Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition)

By Robert Higgs

No Policy Consequences Are ‘Unintended’

William F. Shughart (The Hill)

The government interferes in the private sector, and we get unintended consequences? Please. Two hundred years ago French economist Frédéric Bastiat taught us that any regulatory costs imposed on the rest of us were not mistaken; nor were they inadvertent. And he was right—today more than ever. When will we listen? READ MORE »

The Law

The Classic Blueprint for a Free Society

By Frederic Bastiat

Health Insurance Without Health Care

John C. Goodman (Forbes)

One reason the United States spends more on health care than other countries is that we are obsessive about health insurance, not health care. And what are we getting for all that spending? Are people getting better care? No—and Obamacare has just made things worse. READ MORE »

Priceless

Curing the Healthcare Crisis

By John C. Goodman

The Latest from The Beacon

SCOTUS, Camping Ordinances, and the Eighth Amendment

William J. Watkins, Jr.

Another Infant Formula Shortage? Blame the FDA

Raymond J. March

Biden Administration Proposes Regulating Bank Overdraft Fees

Randall G. Holcombe

Off to a Bad Start

Craig Eyermann

The Latest from Catalyst

Latin America—Which Model?

Alvaro Vargas Llosa

The Tricky Business of Branding

Kimberlee Josephson

Big Firms Are Hardly Invincible. Just Ask Blackberry

Trey Price

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