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Why Have Other High-Income Countries Dropped Wealth Taxes?

Advocates of a wealth tax for the United States need to confront a basic question: Why have other high-income countries decided to drop their own wealth taxes? 

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Silver Squeeze: Next GameStop or Fundamental Bet?

Silver fundamentals are stronger. There is no need to bet on squeezes.

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Value or Growth: The Demise of Value Investing

In the last five years, we have witnessed a debate that is deliberately manipulated: The dilemma of “value investing” against “growth investing”.

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GameStop: Revenge of the Small Investor or Massive Bubble?

The GameStop case is puzzling investors all around the world.

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Could Environmentalists Just Buy What They Want?

Under a "marketable permits" approach to controlling pollution, firms have permits to emit a certain amount of pollution.

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Currency Wars Are Back

The biggest mistake the Biden administration can make is to follow the siren calls of its competing economies to massively devalue the US Dollar, print endlessly and go full-MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), which is not modern nor a theory.

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The Reproducibility Challenge with Economic Data

One basic standard of economic research is surely that someone else should be able to reproduce what you have done.