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A nation once dismissed as ungovernable is suddenly at the center of regional attention.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 4:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Report by The Heartland Institute
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 5:35 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Free markets lower disparities, while government-controlled systems make things worse
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss pushes to embrace free markets and tax cuts in face of energy and economic hardship
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite efforts from the left to bring cradle-to-grave big government to America, dozens of talented entrepreneurs, ages 6 to 14, displayed their keen business sense as part of the annual Raleigh Children’s Business Fair in early October.
Published: Monday, November 8th, 2021 @ 3:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Edward Lazear explains at National Review Online that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden offers the wrong prescription for helping America’s poor.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 @ 7:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic include the importance of keeping money in savings to cushion an economic shutdown.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 10:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I'm a huge fan of free markets, limited government, and the promotion of individual liberty.
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2018 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Freedom of the press and the freedom to operate in a free and open market is critical to maintaining the ideals of liberty and democracy
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leaders are proposing a $1 billion middle class tax reduction plan that would lower personal and corporate income taxes, increase mortgage interest deductions, and allow for unlimited medical and charitable tax deductions
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Often the best thing government can do is get out of the way. We've seen the results of that type of approach over the last six years with less government regulation, fewer taxes and greater access to free markets
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year's legislative session turned out to be an ideological struggle, not between Republicans and Democrats, but between two factions within the Republican Party. (The factions exist outside the GOP as well, but Republicans control the governor's office and hold supermajorities to make...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year's legislative session turned out to be an ideological struggle, not between Republicans and Democrats but between two factions within the Republican Party. This tension goes to the heart of one's belief in free markets as the most moral and efficient way to organize economic activity...
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a recent event with Harry Reid in Las Vegas President Obama accused conservatives of being inconsistent in their support for free markets. Why? Apparently because they are "not for" solar power. Here's what he had to say to the gathering...
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As government agencies continue to push for growth, with the help of their special-interest allies and mainstream media outlets, advocates for free markets and limited government have to work hard to get their messages heard in the public policy debate.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal government run, i.e., single payer, health care system. While this may be true, the US system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a proposition in public choice economics called the "special interest effect." It basically argues that government grows because, for most government programs, there are concentrated beneficiaries and diffused cost bearers. What this means is that the benefits of government programs will...
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the legislature comes back into session, there is a renewed focus on what are typically referred to as economic incentives, or by many who are more skeptical of such programs, corporate welfare or simply cronyism. Programs that are and will continue to be debated are subsidies to...
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Are college students more likely to listen to a lecture about education policy if an adult film actress is behind the podium? They certainly filled the room for Belle Knox, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, a 19-year-old Duke student. She came to UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday to talk about the high cost
Published: Saturday, September 13th, 2014 @ 7:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Critics often label capitalism as unfair. They say a system based on free markets and limited government control leads to wide disparities among the rich and poor.
Published: Friday, August 29th, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Supposedly, the Republican Party is about free markets, individual liberty, and reaping the rewards of hard work.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 3:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I bear good news about a bright spot in higher education. In early 2013, Texas Tech University joined the ranks of world-leading institutions studying and teaching about free markets.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 5:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Conservatives and libertarians spend a lot of time talking about freedom: free markets, limited government, personal responsibility.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is a very important question since the Democrats are driving the fiscal bus, and have been for the last four years. The obvious question is: Will they drive the nation over the fiscal cliff on Monday?
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 9:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Anyone who has spent much time studying economics has heard about the "invisible hand," a concept tied to the classical economic notion of the power of free markets to improve our lives.
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 @ 12:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You wouldn't call someone "anti-spoon" if he preferred to use a knife to cut his steak.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even capitalism's biggest fans have to admit that industrialization has made our world dirtier. At least that seems to be conventional wisdom.
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2012 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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OBX Tea Party believes that the following candidates on the ballot for the July 17 Runoff best represent the Tea Party values of limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets:
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2012 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In recent months, liberal advocacy groups have conducted a concerted attack against the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Washington, D.C.- based nonpartisan public-policy group created in 1973 that promotes federalism, free markets, and limited government.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the very first magazine articles I wrote for pay, appearing in The Freeman magazine, had the colorfully oleaginous title of "Gray Markets and Greased Pigs."
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 3:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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