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China’s Economy Heading Toward Bust
Editors at National Review Online take aim at the Chinese economic model. Everything is going so well for the Chinese economy that the government doesn’t even need to print statistics…
West Germany
Federal Republic of Germany in the period between its formation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990
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Census Report Offers Good News for Red States
Greg Byrnes writes for PJMedia.com about interesting new census data. The U.S. Census Bureau is in need of serious reform. The agency has one job to do. It is outlined…
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Lessons from the Berlin Wall
John Fund of National Review Online ponders the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall. The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years until in 1989 a wave of citizen protest…
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Forbes publisher highlights three reasons why our economic growth rate ‘stinks’
No one should be happy about the chart above, which illustrates declining American economic growth rates. Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard isn’t, and he’s searching for answers that would explain the…
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Socialism: Bad economically and bad morally
Three Duke researchers (Dan Ariely, Ximena Garcia-Rada, and Heather Mann) and a University of Munich colleague have an interesting new research finding, summarized here: By running an experiment among Germans…
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Lying commies
The Economist reports on some interest research on how living under socialism influences people. A group of Germans, some formerly East German, others formerly West German, were asked to roll…
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Freedom, not fertility, the key to the future?
Arguments from Mark Steyn and other conservative pundits notwithstanding, Dr. Paul Hsieh of the group Freedom & Individual Rights in Medicine argues in the latest Forbes that declining American birthrates…
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1967: West Berlin policeman was Stasi agent
Bernie Reeves, editor and publisher of Metro Magazine and founder of the Raleigh Spy Conference, brought this NYT article to my attention. Some of you may remember the 1967 student…
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Locke vs. Marx
Arnold Kling discusses folk-Marxism and folk-Lockism: The contrast between the results of following Locke and those of following Marx could not be sharper. Marxist countries have murdered millions, imposed a…
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Casinos: capitalist versus socialist
The proof of the inferiority of socialist institutions is manifested wherever they are juxtaposed with market alternatives. East German Trabants versus West German Porsches; Chernobyl versus any US nuclear power…
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Convergence away from Communism
In a recent NBER working paper entitled Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People’s Preferences, authors Alberto Alesina and Nichola Fuchs Schuendeln show convergence in preferences…