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Debunking Income-Inequality Research – OpEd

By Bradley Thomas* Barack Obama proclaimed income inequality to be “the defining challenge of our time” in a 2013 speech.

By Daniel Lacalle* The appointment of Christine Lagarde as president of the ECB has been greeted with euphoria by financial

By Frank Shostak* After closing at 735 in February 2009 the S&P500 has been following a relentless up-trend closing at

By Ryan McMaken* If there’s anything I hate, it’s a taxpayer-funded, pro-government party. I hate state dinners, I hate inauguration

By Frank Shostak* A softer increase in the personal consumption price index (PCEPI) adjusted for food and energy has likely

By Daniel J. Mitchell* I wrote five years ago about the growing threat of a wealth tax. Some friends at the time

By Allen Gindler* If we consider economics to be an objective science, its rules should also have universal significance and

By Joshua Konstantinos* One of the most significant economic developments since the Great Recession has been the zombification of the

By Pietro Bullian and Pietro Mistura* The environment of persistently low interest rates is not going to last forever. But

By Ryan McMaken* This week, two oil tankers exploded in the Persian Gulf, reportedly as a result of a limpet