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Economics
Infrastructure: How to Define It and Why the Definition Matters
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July 12, 2021
Soon after he took office, President Joe Biden proposed the American Jobs Plan, which would revamp America’s infrastructure, with the ultimate goal of fostering economic growth. In its current form, the proposal includes spending on items such as childcare and workforce development, which are not widely considered to be infrastructure. The subsequent debate about what constitutes infrastructure demonstrates the need for a common definition of infrastructure when discussing government policy proposals and when thinking about how an economy grows and prospers.
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What’s Going On at the Federal Reserve?
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July 12, 2021
Editorial
A U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund?
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July 15, 2021
Editorial
The Government Isn’t Cooking the Books on Inflation
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July 16, 2021
Editorial
How Economists Put A Price Tag On Your Life
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July 9, 2021
Editorial
Industrial Policy As 'Casino Economics'
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July 12, 2021
Editorial
The Crypto Revolution Will Not Be Public
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July 13, 2021
Editorial
It’s Time for the Fed to Taper Talk, Seriously
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July 15, 2021
Editorial
Foreign Policy
China’s Conventional Power Challenges a U.S.-Centric World
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July 14, 2021
Any analysis of China’s military must start with the understanding that the country’s ultimate aim is to be the world’s leading superpower. China’s leaders, embodied by the Chinese Communist Party, are convinced that the country has earned this status due to its great human, intellectual, industrial and political potential. And thanks to decades of nationalist propaganda, the Chinese people share this view.
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Is Haiti Governable Right Now?
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July 13, 2021
Editorial
Understanding the Threat of China
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July 8, 2021
Video
Emulating Mao
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July 13, 2021
Podcast
How Chinese Propaganda Works
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July 15, 2021
Podcast
Social Issues
Why I’m an Optimist
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July 13, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the question of whether you are an optimist or a pessimist from a personal one into a political one. As the virus began to grip the world through the middle months of 2020, it was common to hear people frame its future as a matter of temperament. “I’m an optimist,” said one prominent Silicon Valley investor. “I think this thing will pan out just fine."
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It’s Time for States to Ditch Certificate of Need Laws
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July 9, 2021
Editorial
Education is Key in the Fight Against Elite Mafias Trying to Control Governments
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July 11, 2021
Editorial
Knowing Without Meeting in the Internet Era
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July 14, 2021
Editorial
Crypto, Inflation, Housing, Cities and Talent with Tyler Cowen
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July 8, 2021
Podcast
Don't Ask Permission!
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July 13, 2021
Video
Podcasts
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Skanda Amarnath on Maximum Employment, Inflation, and the Fed’s New Framework
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July 12, 2021
Skanda Amarnath is the executive director of Employ America and a former hedge fund economist. He rejoins Macro Musings to talk about the fate of the Phillips Curve, the inflation outlook, the Fed’s new framework, and his vision for a better monetary policy future.
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Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA
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July 14, 2021
Alexander the Grate has spent 40 years — more than half of his life — living on the streets (and heating grates) of Washington, DC. He prefers the label NFA (No Fixed Address) rather than “homeless,” since in his view we’re all a little bit homeless.
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Reaching Our Potential as a Liberal Society
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July 16, 2021
Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Peter Boettke about the promise held by the idea of liberal cosmopolitanism and the importance of considering the political economy of institutional arrangements in reaching our potential.
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