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✏️Inspiring, educating & connecting future leaders with the principles of a free society. | Est. 1946
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Javier Milei just handed Pope Leo XIV a copy of The Fatal Conceit, Hayek’s final book. But what was Hayek’s “fatal conceit” -and why does it still matter?. Here are some key takeaways from one of liberty’s most powerful defenses: 🧵
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Trump’s latest tariff deal may dodge a trade war, but don’t cheer just yet. As @DrJakeScott notes, “economic chauvinism” means Americans will pay the price at checkout.
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RT @feeonline: 🎂 Today would’ve been Milton Friedman’s birthday. More than a Nobel-winning economist, he was a fearless defender of libert….
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“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”. - Ayn Rand.
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RT @TheFreemanMag: Should economists think like plumbers?. Esther Duflo, a Nobel laureate, says yes. Just as plumbers tinker with pipes to….
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Milton Friedman, who passed away on November 16 at age 94, once commented that there is no such thing as different schools of economics; there is only good
Friedman never claimed to predict everything. He once joked: “There’s no such thing as different schools of economics—only good economics and bad economics.”. But what he did predict with stunning accuracy was that central planning always fails.
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Milton Friedman, who died last month at age 94, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential champions of individual liberty and free markets. The 1976
At a time when big government and Keynesianism dominated, Milton Friedman argued that printing money can’t cure unemployment… and that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”. He was right, and the data supported him.
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Curiosity. Openness. A willingness to try new things: the fuel of prosperity.
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USA and EU reach tariff compromise.
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As of Sunday, July 27, the United States and the European Union have signed a new trade agreement, imposing a 15% tariff on most EU goods entering the US,
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"As of Sunday, July 27, the United States and the European Union have signed a new trade agreement, imposing a 15% tariff on most EU goods entering the US, while no new tariffs on US goods entering the EU will be implemented. Given that the trade relationship between the two is
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RT @DrJakeScott: The new US-EU trade deal kicks in tomorrow. "Given that the trade relationship between the two is worth over $1.68 trilli….
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As of Sunday, July 27, the United States and the European Union have signed a new trade agreement, imposing a 15% tariff on most EU goods entering the US,
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RT @Kerry_edu: Did you know that @feeonline has relaunched The Freeman, its famed publication? Such fabulous writing, like this piece on Au….
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“[Adam Smith] is of the general opinion that the market is better at allocating capital to productive uses than having capital allocated in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner by government, favouring a few industries but damaging the rest of the economy.”. - Razeen Sally 😯.
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RT @ENBrown: If “feminism is the radical notion that women are people,” as feminist writer Marie Shear famously put it nearly 40 years ago….
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Today we celebrate Milton Friedman’s legacy, and @PeterPashute channels it perfectly: stop the spending, stop the inflation.
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🔍 For 80 years, FEE has challenged bad ideas with good ones. Follow @feeonline for more threads like this, and explore our full archive at
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