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** SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2020
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Far from being an effective and humane way to raise the lowest incomes the unintended consequence of increasing the federal minimum wage has, in fact, been to force hundreds of thousands more Americans into substandard jobs and make the poorest workers poorer.

— Alan Reynolds, "When the Minimum Wage Rises, A Million More Fall Below Minimum ([link removed]) " [2020]
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 28, 2020
Judicial Tyranny in the Drug War ([link removed])
If you still have any doubts about the tyranny of the federal government’s beloved “war on drugs,” perhaps the case of Juan Carlos Seresi, Vahe Andonian, and Nazareth Andonian will remove them. Back in 1991, a federal judge named William D. Keller sentenced these three men to 500 years in jail for a non-violent drug offense—i.e., laundering drug money. Yes, you read that ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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ECONOMICS
When the Minimum Wage Rises, A Million More Fall Below Minimum ([link removed])
by Alan Reynolds
AIER
The Twisted Logic of “Buy Local” ([link removed])
by Sanford Ikeda
Libertarianism.org
JFK
General Curtis LeMay and His War Against the Kennedys ([link removed])
by Charles Burris
LewRockwell.com
DRUG WAR
Breaking the Bloody Mexican Drug Cartels ([link removed])
by Robert Carle
Reason
THE FREE SOCIETY
4 Life-Threatening Unintended Consequences of the Lockdowns ([link removed])
by Brad Polumbo
Foundation for Economic Education
FREE TRADE
Trump’s Aluminum Tariffs: Doing What Tariffs Do ([link removed])
by Scott Lincicome
Cato Institute
Trump’s War on Economic Freedom ([link removed])
by Jacob Sullum
Reason
THE FREE MARKET
Why Do So Many Intellectuals Hate Free Markets? ([link removed])
by Ralph Raico
LewRockwell.com
WORLD WAR I
Washington Should Remember the Past and Avoid a World War I Redux ([link removed])
by Doug Bandow
Antiwar.com
ENVIRONMENT
A Question of Motives ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Libertarian Institute


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