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Recent posts and articles from IGEG fellows, advisers, experts and scholars.

How Dangerous Are Political Lies?

GOVERNMENT ACTORS AND THE MEDIA ARE A GREATER DANGER THAN CANDIDATES WHO CAN BE FACT-CHECKED Ever wonder why politicians and their media friends seem to lie so much more than other people? The simple answer is that the payoff can be large if others believe the lie...

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The End of the Energy Crisis

REAL GAINS FOR AMERICANS AS COSTS COME DOWN Be thankful for entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers. They offset many of the sins of the political class and make our futures better. For decades, self-proclaimed environmentalists and their power-seeking political and...

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Who Is the Biggest and Richest?

IT'S HARD TO RANK GLOBAL ECONOMIES Does China have a larger economy than the U.S.? Is India, Germany or Japan the world’s third-largest economic power? How many minutes of labor does it take for the average worker to buy a Big Mac? These may seem like simple and...

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Abusive Paper Chase

PROSECUTING DONALD TRUMP AND HUNTER BIDEN In the last two weeks, Americans have seen prosecutorial abuse in the legal cases against former President Donald Trump and President Biden’s son Hunter. The state is given the power to protect both person and property, but...

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Is there Any Way out of the Global Debt Crisis?

MOST COUNTRIES WILL SUFFER MISERY FROM GOVERNMENT FISCAL MELTDOWN Elon Musk sees a future where no one works other than doing work as a hobby, and artificial intelligence and robots do all of the work, which would require universally high incomes. People could choose...

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Tyranny of Fauci and the Experts

COVID-19 MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN Last week, a House committee revealed emails from David Morens, who worked under Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The emails further indicate a cover-up as to the origins...

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Stop Whining About Liberal Media

REPUBLICANS MUST BUILD OR BUY AN ADVANTAGE Do you just whine about problems, or do you try to solve them? For decades, many people complained and demanded that the government do something about automobile air pollution. Those in government had no clue on how to create...

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RIP, Ivy League Schools

WHAT WOULD EISENHOWER HAVE DONE ABOUT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY? They have learned nothing! As I write this, Columbia University and others continue in chaos, depriving serious students of what they have paid for. Many have forgotten, if they ever knew, that President...

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End NPR ‘Money Laundering’

PUBLIC RADIO GETS FUNDING FROM THE GOVERNMENT, TAXPAYERS, FOUNDATIONS AND FOREIGN CORPORATIONS Money laundering most often refers to attempts to hide the criminal source of money. But it can also be used to describe making legal money transfers between parties...

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Biden Admin Has Few Choices to Reduce Inflation

Why do the smartest people in the world (at least in their own minds) keep getting surprised? This past week, the most common measure of inflation rose, even though official Washington (the Fed, Biden Treasury, White House) told us it would fall. Inflation is often...

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Bingeing on Free Money at Taxpayers’ Expense

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” — H.L. Mencken What ever happened to fiscal discipline? It seems that each week, President Biden announces another group, such as government employees, will have their college debts forgiven — even...

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Debt Crisis

U.S. INCREASINGLY RELIES ON POORER COUNTRIES TO FUND ITS WELFARE PROGRAMS The U.S. and other rich countries are increasingly funding their government debts by sucking savings from those in poorer countries. This is starving much of the world of needed investment...

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Are You Part of a Ponzi Scheme?

NEW BOOK PROVIDES ROAD MAP FOR AMERICA TO AVOID ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Greece, Argentina, and the old Soviet Union had governments that were Ponzi schemes that eventually went bust. A Ponzi scheme, named after the swindler Charles Ponzi (1882-1949), is an investment fraud...

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