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Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’

Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’

President Biden may have recently made history as the first president to discuss snack chips in the State of the Union message. He used snack chips to illustrate the phenomenon of shrinkflation. Shrinkflation occurs when businesses reduce the amount of goods sold in...

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Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’

Dr. Fauci Helped Homeschooling Grow

A rare instance of an unexpected consequence of a bad policy advancing liberty is the growth in private schools enrollment and homeschooling that occurred as a result of the covid lockdowns. An October 2023 study by Eloise Burtis and Sofoklis Goulas of the Brookings...

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Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’

Heading For the ‘Texit’?

The clash between the Biden Administration and Texas spilled out into the open last week, when the US Supreme Court ruled that Federal authorities could remove razor wire that Texas Governor Greg Abbott had been installing along the border with Mexico to stop the...

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Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’

Don’t Tax the Rich. End the Fed!

Select politicians, government officials, economic elites, and experts arriving at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland were greeted with an open letter signed by more than 250 billionaires and millionaires. The signers request their...

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Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’

Soft Landing or Hard Crash?

A clip from the 1990 movie Home Alone where the lead character purchases groceries, household goods, and toys recently went viral because he paid a total of $19.83 whereas today the same purchase would cost over three times as much. Ironically, while this evidence of...

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The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…

Separate Tech and State

Some libertarians dismiss concerns over social media companies’ suppression of news and opinions that contradict select agendas by pointing out that these platforms are private companies, not part of the government. There are two problems with this argument. First,...

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