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d from the north pole but if we really stop and think about it foreign producers have a degree of santa in them while they do not sell us their wares at zero price they still charge lower prices than our domestic counterparts can match this means more access to goods and services that allow us to live healthily and wealthily however we choose to define those terms unlike santa foreign producers sell their gifts to everyone regardless of age or religious affiliation and they do so year round so what we should really be after here is consistency either condemn santa as the job destroying ip stealing border flouting menace he is or thank foreign producers for enriching our lives with their gifts of specialization you cannot have it both ways the editorial board of the wall street journal reporting on the trump tariff induced decline in demand for american made whiskey concludes that this is harm inflicted on american workers by their own government with this letter in today s wall street journal two gmu econ alums bust the myth that events have proven economists wrong about tariffs economists never claimed that tariffs immediately or inevitably cause inflation why everyone got trump s tariffs wrong page one dec 16 we ve long acknowledged that their effect on prices is complicated the first reason for that is the substitution effect when tariffs raise the relative price of imports consumers often shift their spending toward other goods some import prices may even fall particularly if demand dries up the net effect then is ambiguous the second factor is the income effect higher import costs give consumers less bang for their buck if iphone prices double because of tariffs for instance consumers enjoy less real income tighter budgets mean consumers have less to spend on other goods moral of the story if you re looking solely at the inflation rate to see the effects of tariffs you likely won t find it in a vacuum the levies cause a one time jump in an economy s price level but not a continuous rise in its growth rate what happens after that depends on how policymakers respond in any case tariffs most predictable and immediate effects are sputtering growth and declining consumer welfare ask yourself doesn t that resonate with your experience over the past nine months scott burns southeastern louisiana university baton rouge la caleb s fuller grove city college grove city pa the editorial board of the washington post writes eloquently on this it only took the european union two years to start walking back its plan to ban all new gas and diesel automobiles by 2035 it s an important reminder that government mandates are destined to disappoint in the fight against climate change autumn billings reports that the trump administration obviously believes that the american people would oppose its immigration crackdown if the american people had a clearer understanding of what those crackdowns involve george will bids adieu to 2025 a slice in the republicans hotly contested toadyism sweepstakes a house member proposed legislation to mandate carving donald trump s visage on mount rushmore channeling the etiquette of the golfer in chief american spectators at the ryder cup shouted vulgarities at the european players cannot protectionism fend off the nba s overbearing foreigners in the season that ended in june the five top players as identified by two sophisticated metrics had passports from canada serbia greece france and slovenia 0 comments quotation of the day by don boudreaux on december 27 2025 tweet is from page 401 of the thomas sowell reader 2011 egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all inequality of power allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable 0 comments trade surpluses are not evidence of overcapacity by don boudreaux on december 26 2025 tweet here s a slightly modified version of a letter that i sent eleven days ago to the washington post a letter not published there editor nearly all that you write about the effect of u s tariffs on china is correct and crucial are u s tariffs on china working look at the evidence december 15 but you err when you describe china s trade surplus as evidence of its industrial overcapacity china might well have industrial overcapacity but a country s trade surplus isn t necessarily evidence of such a trade surplus could instead reflect the relative attractiveness to a country s citizens of investing abroad rather than in their own country the resulting net outflow of capital which is the mirror image of a trade surplus reflects not necessarily industrial overcapacity but rather much better investment opportunities abroad it s worth noting that if china does indeed have industrial overcapacity that s a problem for china but a boon to the rest of the world we get a greater abundance of goods for our consumption and inputs for use in our own production facilities all subsidized by the chinese people sincerely donald j boudreaux professor of economics and martha and nelson getchell chair for the study of free market capitalism at the mercatus center george mason university fairfax va 22030 0 comments some links by don boudreaux on december 26 2025 tweet john puri at national review eloquently exposes the historical inaccuracies of the concept of heritage americans two slices american heritage has never been static a closed system incompatible with newcomers rather it has always been distinguished by openness and dynamism by the simultaneous assimilation and evolution that new arrivals undergo and bring about conservatives tend to scoff when liberals say that america is a nation of immigrants because progressives often use that sentiment to decry any lawful restriction on migration but of course america is a nation of immigrants and their descendants unless you re native american none of your ancestors were here a thousand years ago at least two of them had to get on a boat or a plane and come over at some point leaving another place they formerly called home accordingly there exists no american culture that preceded american immigrants the first english settlement in america jamestown was founded by what we now call economic migrants seeking profit in a bountiful new world the second settlement plymouth was built by refugees puritans escaping legal persecution because of their divergent faith they were distinctly english yes but also distinctly their own most europeans who came to the thirteen colonies between 1630 and the revolution came as indentured servants they were usually destitute willing to surrender their freedom for many years for a chance at someday acquiring land before the war americans complained that england was dumping its wretched refuse on the colonies shipping over tens of thousands of prisoners vagrants and other undesirables but those miscreants soon became americans too so called heritage americans can claim many of them as their ancestors by the founding era just three fifths of the white population in america was of english descent the rest were of scottish irish dutch french german swedish or other origin hundreds of thousands more had been brought from africa america was then the most ethnically and religiously diverse republic the world had ever seen it remains so today the framers of the constitution drafted the document to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity they also knew that the american posterity would include many newcomers the constitution authorized congress to establish an uniform rule of naturalization for future citizens no one was more concerned with sustaining the nation s republican character than the patriots in philadelphia it is therefore interesting that they specified how immigrants could become the people s representatives in congress after a certain number of years as naturalized citizens less than a decade an amendment to increase the wait time to 14 years was voted down at the constitutional convention large scale immigration continued from the 19th century into the 20th interrupted just for a few decades by stringent laws before resuming immigrants arrived increasingly from unfamiliar places like italy russia and poland later from asia and latin america today s nationalists claim to preserve america s history and institutions does ellis island not count among them america s nationhood to self proclaimed nationalists is just like that of a european country bloodline is everything but american blood has never not been a mixture because immigration has never not been a part of the american story there is nothing here to keep pure besides our defining impurity also writing insightfully about the grotesque concept of heritage americans is the cato institute s alex nowrasteh steven greenhut explains what shouldn t but alas what today nevertheless does need explaining when washington crossed the delaware on christmas 1776 it wasn t in the name of christian nationalism a slice we re seeing the re emergence of an age old debate most people see america as an experiment in classical liberalism whereby the founders created a system of limited government religious pluralism and liberty religious leaders are free to spread their message through the culture but not to take control of the levers of power and base lawmaking on their sectarian bible interpretations the constitution protects everyone s natural rights with its main purpose limiting the sphere of government not implementing rules to assure proper religious observance there really is no other way to seriously read our constitution but many religious people still argue the founders were christians who envisioned a christian nation some of the founders were indeed devout christians and these folks cherry pick christian quotations from them the heritage foundation which has recently taken a nationalist detour argued in 2011 that the most reasonable read is the founders simply were influenced by christian ideas indeed i m a christian who believes our faith centers on kindness charity redemption and free will rather than empowering tribunals to decide who gets publicly stoned or flogged for violating some biblical admonition consider the madness that will ensue if religious interpretation becomes the legal standard then again the hilarious fights at city councils between calvinists and catholic integralists over the proper manifestation of god s will might be worth the price of admission christian nationalists often argue that america cannot survive as a multicultural multi religious nation to which i ll quote a 1788 rebuttal from george washington i had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind to whatever nation they might belong as we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding americans must not let washington s brilliant legacy and the nation s ideals get hijacked by wackadoodles also explaining what shouldn t but what today nevertheless does need explaining is the editorial board of the washington post which here makes clear that socialized medicine is very bad for your health a slice a campaign in britain to keep people away from hospitals during the holidays is underway which includes begging the public to seek out other forms of treatment for less serious injuries and ailments the british press compares the messaging to covid era stay at home pleas which included asking patients who needed care to avoid medical facilities in order to protect the nhs that messaging worked so well in fact that the health service has been playing catch up ever since there were 6 24 million individual patients waiting to get treatment in england as of october that s about 1 in 10 people in the country waiting in the queue a stiff upper lip is one thing in wartime and during a once a century viral outbreak it s something else when you ve got a hernia this is the dark reality of single payer and a cautionary tale for the third of americans who mistakenly believe medicare for all is a good idea both funded and run by the taxpayer the nhs relies on rationing treatment to stay afloat this results in patients with serious health problems forced to wait for months or years to access treatment hoping they don t die before the doctor sees them wait times get exacerbated by the politics that inevitably become intertwined when government rather than consumers calls the shots my intrepid mercatus center colleague veronique de rugy argues persuasively that the most overlooked holiday miracle is the abundance that we humans create when we re free and innovative a slice history shows quite clearly that the societies most capable of generosity and liberalism are not those trapped in poverty but those that have escaped it an abundance of wealth does not corrupt moral life it enables it economic growth is not a rival to our highest values it s a precondition to their most vigorous pursuit this truth is easy to forget precisely because modern growth has been so successful we take for granted the material abundance that allows us to debate its spiritual costs for most of human existence life was defined by constant vulnerability hunger disease and early death were ever present the idea that ordinary people could expect anything different let alone genuine comfort or opportunity would sound fantastical to our preindustrial ancestors as economic historians like deirdre mccloskey have shown the dramatic acceleration of growth beginning in the 19th century the great enrichment transformed human prospects on a scale unmatched by any previous moral or political revolution living standards rose exponentially poverty declined education spread and with this abundance came a greater capacity for tolerance pluralism and peaceful coexistence gmu econ alum david hebert puts in perspective the recent report of an annualized 4 3 economic growth rate in the third quarter of 2025 a slice so what do i think about the 4 3 growth for q3 honestly i am surprised but also not all that surprised as it turns out the american economy is incredibly resilient because the american people are incredibly resilient it would take a massive amount of government stupidity to overcome the incredible strength of the american worker which serves as the source of our economy s resiliency still growth is slower this year than it was during 2024 at least so far to get to a growth rate above what we saw in 2024 we would need to see q4 s annualized growth rate hit over 4 again when is the last time we had two consecutive quarters of over 4 annualized growth excluding the pandemic years and the insanity for national income accounting statistics during that time does anyone really believe that we grew at 34 9 during q2 2020 the last time this happened was in the 1998 gmu econ phd candidate brian mandeville ponders how governments and 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