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They were a bad idea in the twentieth century and even more so today.

In the almost one-hundred-year existence of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), its current general secretary, Xi Jinping, is only the second leader clearly chosen by his peers. The first was Mao Zedong. Both men beat out the competition, and thus secured a legitimacy their predecessors lacked.1 Why was Xi chosen?The Beijing rumor mill had long indicated that the outgoing

We used price controls after inflation sky-rocketed after the second world war. There’s a strong case for doing so again now

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Everything from supply chains to green finance defied predictions. What do they hold for 2022? | Finance & economics

<p>Special Announcement about the Economy and the Stock Market: Before getting into today’s Skousen CAFÉ, the federal government released gross output (GO) — the measure of total spending in the economy — for the third quarter. Real GO rose 4% (after inflation), suggesting a slowdown in the economy, compared to the second quarter. However, real GO […]</p> .12/23/2021 12:34:28PM EST.

<p>“As all history informs us, there has been in every state and kingdom a constant warfare between the governing and the governed; the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less.” — Benjamin Franklin (1787) How many of you have kept in touch with your favorite teachers from high school or […]</p> .12/16/2021 16:14:48PM EST.

There have been heartening signs recently that i...

The current mania for electric-vehicle makers, from Tesla to Lucid to Rivian, is reminiscent of the dot-com boom and bust.

Verona, Italy (PRWEB) November 22, 2021 -- “Good questions outrank easy answers” says Paul Samuelson, economist and Nobel Memoria Prize winner. As we well