Whatever the merits of the gold standard, I don’t see it happening in the next five years. Where is the political will? Ron Paul remains steady in the polls, even surging a bit lately, but still a long ways from the White House. And unless I’m mistaken, Paul is the only serious contender for the […]
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I find most discussions of taxation mind-numbingly stupid. We have a terrible tax code. It’s full of bad incentives. It’s written by people in the thrall of public opinion or pledged to Grover Norquist’s silly no-new-taxes pledge. It’s an ad hoc disaster that makes many tax lawyers and tax software people very rich. Many people […]
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