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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Good Desired Is Better Reached By Free Trade In Ideas

“The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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First Principles: Tariffs Tend To Increase Prices For the Items Being Protected

“Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.” – Alexander Hamilton (1791) While the purposes behind the tariffs might be well intended.  The outcome is not very likely … Continue reading

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