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Drug abuse with people sharing the same syringe

^{Debra J. Saunders
December 2, 2021
Economics}

No, Safe Injection Sites Aren’t Safe

_{Debra J. Saunders
December 2, 2021
Economics}

Tuesday New York City opened two safe injection sites in a bid to prevent overdose deaths, which have skyrocketed in America. Here’s why it’s a bad idea. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
November 24, 2021
Economics}

Homelessness Will Not Be Solved With a One-Size-Fits-All Solution

_{Caitlin Bassett
November 24, 2021
Economics}

Mark Horvath has interviewed a countless number of homeless people for his YouTube channel, Invisible People. Based on his own experience and these interviews, Horvath is a Housing First advocate, arguing that our efforts must be focused on housing in order to fix homelessness. Is Horvath right? Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
November 2, 2021
Economics}

President of Orange County Rescue Mission Explains Homelessness

_{Caitlin Bassett
November 2, 2021
Economics}

The Orange County Rescue Mission is the largest non-profit faith-based organization in the Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. Incredibly, it houses 500-600 people within their many facilities at any given time and serves over 19,800 people in the community. Read More ›

The busy of port congestion loading and discharging containers services in maritime transports in World wide logistics

^{Nathan Lewis
October 24, 2021
Economics}

Rationalizing Tariffs

_{Nathan Lewis
October 24, 2021
Economics}

Economic Nationalism tends to boil down into two basic policies: tariffs, and limited immigration. Sometimes, in the past, it has meant currency devaluations, but today that is not really proposed. On a broader basis, it means that economic policy should result in positive outcomes, for the whole of the population. Read More ›

close up of addict woman and drug syringes

^{Caitlin Bassett
October 20, 2021
Economics}

The Real Zombie Apocalypse

_{Caitlin Bassett
October 20, 2021
Economics}

The likelihood of a zombie apocalypse like the ones portrayed in movies and TV shows is slim to say the least, but in the slums of some of America's largest cities, it seems the apocalypse is already upon us. Only it's not a virus or a curse turning people into walking shells of their former selves – it's drug addiction. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
October 14, 2021
Economics}

Life After Capitalism

_{George Gilder
October 14, 2021
Economics}

Anyone determined to provide a “new economics” must haul a heavy burden of proof up a steep slope of professional resistance. At the summits of academic prestige, economics presents a Delphic façade of math and marble. Read More ›

Two police officers arrest and handcuff homeless woman in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California.

^{Caitlin Bassett
October 4, 2021
Economics}

How Leftist Prosecutors Contributed To 2020’s Massive Crime Spike

_{Caitlin Bassett
October 4, 2021
Economics}

The number of homicides in the United States increased around 30 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported last week, along with a 5.6 percent increase in violent crime in the same period. Read More ›

^{Bill Walton
August 31, 2021
Economics}

The Bill Walton Show: Why America Must Remain the World’s Preeminent Seapower

_{Bill Walton
August 31, 2021
Economics}

After decades of cuts to shipbuilding and maintenance, the United States Navy has been stripped down to a fleet barely larger than it was 100 years ago, in1916. Meanwhile, China has dramatically increased its spending on its Navy, as well as on its Air Force, cyberspace and electronic warfare capabilities. Alarmingly, Beijing is building islands in the South China Sea, threatening trade routes and menacing allies. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
August 30, 2021
Economics}

Solutions to Homelessness: Acres of Diamonds in King County, Washington

_{Caitlin Bassett
August 30, 2021
Economics}

While Seattle wrestles with its own homelessness problem, a small suburb to the Emerald City’s east has been saving homeless mothers and their children from cycles of abuse, addiction, and homelessness for over twenty years. Read More ›

Ruins of a city. Apocalyptic landscape.3d illustration concept

^{George Gilder
August 24, 2021
Economics}

Doomed to Succeed

_{George Gilder
August 24, 2021
Economics}

Is modern life a doom machine? Do urbanization, international trade, air transport, immigration, tourism, and travel expose humans to an ever-growing threat of plagues and catastrophes? Are we killing ourselves through our cosmopolitan bustle of business, technology, immigration, cultural exchange, agriculture, and exogamous sex? Read More ›