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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2023
The price level has risen about eight times since 1932, so a $25,000 income then would the "equivalent" of an income of $200,000 today -- one could readily afford a Rolls-Royce, the best seats in the theater, and the care of the best physicians in the country. But the 1932 Rolls-Royce, for all its many virtues, does not embody some desirable technologies available today in the humblest Ford. Nor would the imposing dollar of 1932 buy a TV set or a home videocassette recorder. And if one got an infection, the best physicians of 1932 would not be able to prescribe an antibiotic.
 
– Mancur Olson

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October 12, 2023
The Planned Chaos of Immigration Socialism
Sometimes I just can’t help but be amused by defenders of America’s socialist system of immigration controls. They point to the large number of migrants who are crossing America’s southern border and to all the migrants who are overwhelming governmental facilities in various cities...
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