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Surprising no one, and yet shocking many, avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani won the election yesterday to become Mayor of the largest city in the United States.[1]

Probably the main reason for Mamdani’s victory is that he pursued the tried-and-true method of giving out free stuff, and a who...

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Well, it seems like it’s been a while since the last CPI update! Thanks to the government shutdown, it has been since this data is a week and a half later than it was scheduled to be. The importance of the CPI release is obvious, but it was reinforced by the fact it’s the only one the government is calling people back to release. It isn’t that we don’t have reasonably-accurat...

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We live in interesting times, and let’s face it: mostly, in a good way. It doesn’t have to stay that way, naturally, and it won’t stay that way naturally.

This has always been the weak spot in any system that insists on centralized management of certain functions. Of course, that’s the fundamental flaw and conceit of socialism: it relies on the active intercession o...

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I want to say something briefly about the “neutral rate of interest,” which has recently become grist for financial television because of new Trump-appointed Fed Governor Stephen Miran’s speech a couple of days ago in which he opined that the neutral rate of interest is much lower than the Fed believes it is, and that therefore the Fed funds target should be more like 2%-2.25...

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Before I begin talking about today’s CPI, a quick word about the 24th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. As someone who worked 1 block from the Towers, I can tell you it’s a day I will never forget and filled with images I can never erase. But I also remember that in the weeks that followed, the country was unified in a way I’d never seen. Rudy Giuliani was “Americ...

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