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April 26, 2025

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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton joins Soar Financially podcast host Kai Hoffman and unpacks the true role of the Fed, gold-backed bonds, currency manipulation, Bretton Woods 2.0, and how to restore monetary integrity in America.

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** Over 1,500 Scholars Agree: Trump's Tariffs Are Terrible ([link removed])
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Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration— including Senior Fellow Michael C. Munger, Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell, and Research Fellow David Henderson—to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade.

“Tariffs are bad domestic policy, and bad foreign policy,” said Munger.

“Tariffs will harm the well-being of average Americans while failing to achieve the stated and often mutually contradictory objectives of their advocates,” said Powell.

Henderson warned Trump's tariffs jeopardize 80 years of progress toward free trade.
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** Sell IRS Guns and Ammo to the People ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley knows how to reduce the deficit: sell IRS guns and ammo.
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** Free Stuff is Expensive ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Art Carden argues it takes more than simply starting farmer’s markets and building playgrounds to help the poor.
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** Political Central Banks ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton argues central bankers, including Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, have become too political, powerful, and permanent.


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Research Associate Jonathan Hofer argues gang deportations are a fool’s errand; instead, end the drug war. Read more » ([link removed])


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** Ave Maria Radio ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Pope Francis and the Caring Society ([link removed]) (now 50% off!), discusses the legacy of Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21st. Listen now » ([link removed])


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Research Fellow David Henderson urges readers to sign the Anti-Tariff Declaration. Read more » ([link removed])


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** WABC Radio's "Moore Money with Steve Moore" show ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton critiques Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell’s overtly political comments and describes what she would do if she were the Fed Chair. Listen now » ([link removed])


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** The Tennessee Informer ([link removed])
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Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., joins The Tennessee Informer host Dave Vance to ask the provocative and unflinching question: Is it time to topple the 14th Amendment? Watch now » ([link removed])


** The Unseen and The Unsaid Substack ([link removed])
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Resarch Associate Caleb Petitt explains how tax competition kept taxes remarkably low throughout the colonial period, which fostered a love of liberty and limited government in the American colonists. Read more » ([link removed])


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Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas writes a moving tribute to his late father, Nobel laureate and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. Read more » ([link removed])


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Senior Fellow Robert M. Whaples is interviewed on C-SPAN’s Book TV about the book he edited, Pope Francis and the Caring Society ([link removed]) (now 50% off!). Watch now » ([link removed])


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** Pope Francis and the Caring Society ([link removed])
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** edited by Robert M. Whaples
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What is the most effective way to fight poverty? Are the poor better off under a market economy? What value does a religious perspective offer in addressing moral, political, and economic problems? Pope Francis and the Caring Society is the indispensable resource for readers to understand how the late Pope considered—or how he ought to have considered—these vital questions.
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