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The one promise that President Joe Biden has faithfully kept is his pledge to "close down" fossil fuels.

Throughout her leadership election campaign, Liz Truss gave a strong impression that her government would be devoted to the free market.

The AIER Leading Indicators Index remained well below neutral in the latest month, signaling broadening economic weakness and sharply elevated levels of risk for the outlook. Caution is warranted.

 "For a variety of complicated reasons this early Spanish Enlightenment didn’t flourish as we might have wished. But without it, the English and Scottish Enlightenments may well have never coalesced." ~ Paul Schwennesen

"Government officials and big tech alike should take seriously that with the rise of big data comes a corresponding concern about privacy and transparency." ~ April Liu and Ryan M. Yonk

Negotiation has never been a skill of mine.

"How much more could FDR have done had he had a CBDC? The risk of a CBDC goes beyond the serious issue of financial privacy." ~ Nicolás Cachanosky

Perhaps the United States of America would not have become so politicized had we all followed a good piece of advice from Benjamin Franklin.

"Basic economics, both in theory and practice, warn us that these latest efforts to subsidize insulin production are much more likely to cause further harm to an already dire situation." ~ Byron Carson and Raymond J. March