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Blog: Crooked Timber
I should have posted this much earlier, but it just dawned on me that I should have invited all our NYC-based readers to the book launch of the US-edition of my book on Limitarianism. I guess my best and most truthful excuse is that I've been too busy with media requests since the Dutch version […]
Blog: Europe on the Strand
As the debate about Britain's place in Europe intensifies ahead of June's referendum on EU membership, the role of the press has come under close scrutiny. Alastair Campbell, who was director of communications to the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, recently attacked the majority of the UK press for having "totally given up on […]
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Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
The end of the year means one thing at PolitiFact: Lie of the Year! We'd like to know what you think we should pick as the biggest falsehood of 2023. Vote today:
Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
It's time to announce the winner of our 2023 Lie of the Year Readers' Choice poll — and this year, it's a close one.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
I've been in Washington over 30 years, but sometimes even I can be stunned by the short memories and shortsightedness of members of the Fourth Estate. Today's example is the editorial board of the venerable (and usually pretty sane) Wall Street Journal.
Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
As we reported on the primaries from New Hampshire this week, we asked PolitiFact readers what they're concerned about going into 2024. Here's what they told us.
Blog: USAPP
We'd like to wish our readers all the best for the holidays and to say thanks so much to all our readers and to those who contributed articles in 2023. We’re looking forward to continuing to bring you more analysis and commentary on American politics, economics, culture, and society in 2024. If you'd like to … Continued
Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
Here's what readers said about PolitiFact's recent fact-checks about transgender data, Florida school standards on Black history and statements by Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Blog: Blog - Adam Smith Institute
Anyone who's been reading the more hysterical parts of the press this past year or two will have seen those shrieks that the banks aren't raising deposit rates as fast as they are loan rates. At which point there's the screaming that government must do something and even some bureaucrats stepping into that breach to something do.This is, of course, the wrong way to go about things in a market economy. For the very feature, point even, of a market economy is that we adults not only have agency we also have the freedom and liberty to pick and choose. It is that very deployment of our agency in our picking and choosing - those things we can do as a result of the freedom and liberty that multiple suppliers offers us - which then keeps the capitalists in line. They can't rip us off too badly because we'll go elsewhere. This does rather mean that we do have to be adult and deploy our agency. But then we are and we do, right? From NatWest's latest results announcement: Bank net interest margin (NIM) of 2.94% was 19 basis points lower than Q2 2023 with the reduction largely due to changes in deposit mix as customers shifted balances from non-interest bearing current accounts to interest bearing savings accounts, particularly term, as well as the continued impact on mortgage margins as the higher margin Covid-era book rolls off and is replaced at lower margins. Bank NIM was 3.11% for the year to date.We are - or enough of us are - moving our money from low interest accounts to higher. Which is eating into the margins, profits, being made by the bank. Good, this is as it should be. Now, it is possible for us to insist that actually, government should be doing all of this for us. Several of us here have lived in a variety of countries where that is the deal. Believe us, those places are worse. That very liberty of choice is what constrains the capitalists. If we're too lazy to exercise our adult agency then we'll not constrain them, will we - and if we do then they will be so constrained.We even have the joy of not having to exercise said choices and those that do will do better than those that don't. Great system, isn't it? All under our, not their, control.
Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
PolitiFact readers respond to our fact-checks of President Joe Biden, Former President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy and a claim about the cost of groceries in the "Home Alone" movie.
Blog: Reason.com
Gift ideas for the VC readers in your life!
Blog: Reason.com
leads some readers to engage in "threats and harassment" against the business.
Blog: Political Violence at a Glance
Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…
Blog: ROAPE
For 50 years, ROAPE has brought our readers pathbreaking analysis on radical African political economy in our quarterly review, and for more than ten years on our website. ROAPE's founding editor, Peter Lawrence, explains that from January 2024, all of our readers will be able to access every part of ROAPE as well as its archive without a paywall. This will make ROAPE accessible to a much wider readership, especially in Africa. We need subscriptions and donations to make this revolutionary intiative work. Sign up now!
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Blog: Reason.com
The author, whose libertarian leanings are evident, makes readers consider the impact of the choices they make in the voting booth.