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Argentina's "Chainsaw President" Shocks Critics
One year after Javier Milei took office brandishing a chainsaw and promising to slash government, the results are stunning:
- First budget surplus in a decade
- Crime down 50%
- Public spending cut 30%
- Economy set to grow 5% in 2025
His radical free-market reforms are working. He restored order instead of chaos, ended protest blockades, and sparked a housing boom by ending price controls (which he brilliantly branded as "sincere pricing").
From the guy who used to raffle his salary because it was "stolen" from taxpayers - looks like Argentina's bold experiment is paying off.
Read more here: thedailyeconomy.org/article/…
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Americans must stop ignoring our senses and our memories. If @RealDonaldTrump has an ounce of decency, he should pardon Edward @Snowden, who with a promising career and his whole life ahead of him, put everything on the line to help protect us. @dsdamato
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The most famous #Woodstock concert began on Aug. 15, 1969, and occurred during the deadly Hong Kong flu pandemic. Nothing was closed by force. Congress passed no legislation. The Fed did nothing. Why was this different?
Analysis by @jeffreytucker.
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WATCH | AIER's @jeffreytucker joins @Liz_Wheeler from @OANN Tipping Point to talk about @neil_ferguson's conflict of interest and corruption. #COVID19 #Corruption #NeilFerguson
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"We present 31 high-quality sources of evidence [which] show that #COVID #lockdowns have been a failure."
Dr. Paul E. Alexander, PhD
Howard Tenenbaum, DDS, PhD, MD
Ramin Oskoui, MD
Harvey Risch, MD, PhD
Peter McCullough, MD
Nicholas E. Alexander
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“Imagine that you’ve got the political spectrum on a string. Left & right. You take the string, and you pull it up, so that the ends of the strings come down in a circle; almost touching. Then, you draw an imaginary line through the middle.” @PardyBruce
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“They have a right to be quarantined, they have a right to be isolated, they have a right to be told “You can’t come in here”, they have a right not to travel.”
TEASER below, FULL FILM HERE: piped.video/IoKK5b4aTG0
Based on essay by @BarryBrownstein. #VaccineMandates
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YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors aier.org/article/youtube-cen…
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Archive: 'On the evening of December 25, 1991, the red flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was lowered from the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. After almost 75 years, the communist nightmare was over.'
@RMEbeling #SovietUnion
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The Great Barrington Declaration now displays an updated signature count, with >650k signatures from the general public and nearly 50k signatures from medical practitioners & public health scientists.
Read and sign the #GreatBarringtonDeclaration now. gbdeclaration.org/view-signa…
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.@RonDeSantisFL held a public health roundtable to discuss the state's #COVID19 response.
He was joined by Scott Atlas, @SunetraGupta, Jay Bhattacharya, and @MartinKulldorff.
Among the topics discussed were the state's lockdown policies, mask policies, and more. @gbdeclaration
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More “Covid Suicides” than Covid Deaths in Kids zpr.io/RZsah
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There is a growing awareness that we have a major problem. What is the source of this fixation on putting some variation of corn in everything we make and eat? bit.ly/2FvL9LS.
Analysis by @jeffreytucker, referencing @HeinzKetchup_US. #Nutrition @US_FDA
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If we see what went wrong these months and the right way forward – we can rebuild. If we do not, the destruction and rights violations will continue.
Analysis by @jeffreytucker. #Law #Looters #Lockdown #GeorgeFloyd
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Archive: "Stock markets didn’t crash because of the H3N2 pandemic in 1968. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve flattening, or banning of crowds." @jeffreytucker aier.org/article/woodstock-o…
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Florida Governor @RonDeSantisFL, on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns, invited back the scientists behind the @gbdeclaration, signed at the offices of @AIER, for a roundtable on the #COVID19 and the policy response:
aier.org/article/great-barri…. @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta
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.@MartinKulldorff: "I’m very worried about the future of science, because science is dependent on free exchange of ideas... So if this continues, this kind of attitude with censoring certain scientific views, then I think we have reached the end of 300 years of enlightenment."
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The #GreatBarringtonDeclaration, created by @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta & Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 10/4/20, has proved prescient and continues to offer insight into a #Covid19 public health strategy. It now holds > 800k signatures.
Visit gbdeclaration.org to learn more.
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"Vaccination is – or should be – a personal decision based upon one’s assessment of the risks and benefits to oneself ... @NYGovCuomo is effectively using the coercive power of the state to influence people’s choices about their bodies and health."
Read: aier.org/article/your-right-….
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Remember these wise words from @jeffreytucker back in April?
"We need to argue for an immediate opening, even if that comes with risks, because at least society can adapt, and we can evaluate those risks on our own, consider various routes, and get back to our lives." #COVID19
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The #GreatBarringtonDeclaration, created by @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta & Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 10/4/20, has proved prescient and continues to offer insight into a #Covid19 public health strategy. It now holds >800k signatures.
Visit gbdeclaration.org to learn more.
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WATCH | Our Editorial Director @jeffreytucker joins @Ideias_Radicais to discuss why social democracy is failing: bit.ly/2BVTEdU. #Economics #Government #Democracy
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"Lockdowns are not science. They never have been. They are an experiment in social/political top-down management that is without precedent in cost to life and liberty.” ~ @jeffreytucker
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Jonathan Miltimore's (@miltimore79) review of @MattWalshBlog's "Am I a Racist?" on @AIER highlights how Walsh masterfully uses humor to dismantle DEI narratives.
Read the full review here: aier.org/article/am-i-a-raci….
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Lockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis zpr.io/RYYTF
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Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and For All aier.org/article/lockdowns-n…
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.@jeffreytucker: "The lockdowns destroyed industries, schools, churches, liberties and lives, demoralizing the population and robbing people of essential rights. All in the name of safety from a virus that did its work in any case."
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#Texas #Lockdowns
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“The lawsuit ultimately hinges that these social media giants were/are colluding with the state to suppress #freespeech. If so, that would be an issue that everyone should be concerned about and hope to defeat.”
Analysis by Ethan Yang
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"@Youtube @SusanWojcicki has taken down a video of @GovRonDeSantis holding a policy discussion with Dr. Scott Atlas and @GBDeclaration creators @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta & Jay Bhattacharya [...] its removal was first flagged by @AIER." -@WSJ Board wsj.com/articles/youtubes-as…
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The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing aier.org/article/the-anti-lo…
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Even as a #Covid19vaccine comes into view, govts persist in #lockdowns and restrictions on personal and economic freedom.
The #GreatBarringtonDeclaration has now gained nearly 750k signatures, w. over 50k sigs from health professionals. Sign today at gbdeclaration.org.
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Many millions of people have spent the last four months in sadness and depression. It’s hard to watch the world shattered by the bad behavior of #governments – and to see too many among us cheer the #destruction.
Read @jeffreytucker's latest piece: aier.org/article/what-good-c….
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CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Vaccine Passports vs. Freedom Itself:
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“Well, a new line has been crossed. Harvard Professor @MartinKulldorff and co-creator of the @gbdeclaration, one of the most cited epidemiologists and infectious disease experts in the world has been censored by #Twitter.”
~@jeffreytucker
cc. @jack
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Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress zpr.io/HS7bJ
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Special Envoy of @WHO / Director-General on COVID19 @davidnabarro discusses the lockdown criticism of @SunetraGupta, co-creator of the #GreatBarringtonDeclaration, with @Spectator chairman @afneil.
Learn more at gbdeclaration.org.
WATCH: Dr David Nabarro, the WHO's Special Envoy on Covid-19, tells Andrew Neil: 'We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method'. Watch the full interview here: piped.video/x8oH7cBxgwE?t=915 #SpectatorTV @afneil | @davidnabarro
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Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons zpr.io/HCJSx
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A Guide for Free Thinkers: They’re Both Wrong zpr.io/HFtq8
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🧵1/ Federal regulatory compliance costs are quietly draining the US economy at an unprecedented scale. Recent studies show government agencies now control nearly every sector, from food production to construction, with the Federal Register expanding even during so-called "deregulation" periods. This regulatory burden hampers growth and liberty.
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"The post-#Halloween candy market is a commercial society of traders buying low and selling high, and it’s a microcosm of what happens when market exchange works well." @artcarden
🎃🍭 aier.org/article/how-kids-cr…
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Since 2018 the number of students enrolled have decreased by 6%, and yet the number of school staff employed have increased by 19%. This leads @DeAngelisCorey asks, "What other industry loses its customer base and then goes on a hiring spree?"
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"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have concerns about the damaging health impacts of the prevailing #COVID19 policies, and recommend an approach we call #FocusedProtection." @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta #GBDeclaration gbdeclaration.org/
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Lockdowns: The Great Debate zpr.io/HSFur
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Find the full video with @GovRonDeSantis & @GBDeclaration creators @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta & Jay Bhattacharya at the link below, with a transcript. It was removed from Youtube.
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration #GBDeclaration aier.org/article/great-barri…
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Liberty Is the Theme of the American Spirit zpr.io/HtTJ5
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WATCH | Mises vs. Marx: The March of History.
A rap battle music video, produced by AIER.
#MisesvsMarx #TheMarchOfHistory misesvsmarx.aier.org/
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WATCH | @katewand spoke with Michael Munger @mungowitz, economist and professor of political economy at @DukeU, about the Classical Liberal diaspora, the classical liberal tradition, and more on this episode of #LibertyCurious.
Watch the complete video here: piped.video/uS5WH22wDDs?si=pIfe….
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Are you a doctorate or post-graduate student looking for a paid 2024 fellowship? Apply to our #GraduateFellowship program!
Selected candidates receive mentorship, accommodations on our beautiful campus, and a stipend.
Apply now:
aier.org/graduate-fellowship….
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CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Vaccine Passports vs. Freedom Itself: aier.org/article/vaccine-pas….
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Lockdowns Wrecked Democracy around the World zpr.io/Rz322
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"The @hulu series has made it abundantly clear that history is no longer the primary purpose of the #1619Project, assuming it ever was."
Read 'The 1619 Project’s Confusion on Capitalism' by @PhilWMagness at National Review @NRO: nationalreview.com/2023/02/t….
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The video of @GovRonDesantis' discussion with @GBDeclaration scientists on Florida's response came to serve as a tutorial in the relationship between public policy & virus mitigation. @Youtube removed it.
@jeffreytucker @SusanWojcicki @NBCNews @LP_WTSP aier.org/article/youtube-cen…
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During nation-wide lockdowns in 2020, AIER played a strong role in guiding people back toward the light of freedom & rationality. And working with the best scientists, we hosted a game-changing document: The #GreatBarringtonDeclaration. @gbdeclaration aier.org/article/aier-2020-a…
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"Lockdowns do not eliminate the virus, they merely shift the burden onto the working class." ~@jeffreytucker
Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying? aier.org/article/why-is-ever…. #Lockdowns #Texas
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Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff zpr.io/RYSFf
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Open Up Society Now, Say Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi zpr.io/tJV2m
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In this first installment of Qualified Opinions, the conversation focuses on the return of progressive antitrust legal doctrines at the Federal Trade Commission under the direction of Lina Khan.
Listen here: bit.ly/3Iu5BdD
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The Soviet Economy Was Not Growing; It Was Dying: aier.org/article/the-soviet-…. Analysis by @PhilWMagness. #History #Socialism
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The most famous #Woodstock concert began on Aug. 15, 1969, and occurred during the deadly Hong Kong flu pandemic. Nothing was closed by force. Congress passed no legislation. The Fed did nothing. Why was this different? @jeffreytucker
aier.org/article/woodstock-o…
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Great Barrington Declaration Scientists with Gov. DeSantis in Florida: aier.org/article/great-barri….
Among the topics discussed were the state's lockdown policies, return of students to public schools, and mask policies. @gbdeclaration @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta
#Lockdowns
.@RonDeSantisFL held a public health roundtable to discuss the state's #COVID19 response.
He was joined by Scott Atlas, @SunetraGupta, Jay Bhattacharya, and @MartinKulldorff.
Among the topics discussed were the state's lockdown policies, mask policies, and more. @gbdeclaration
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"Coming from both left and right, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health." @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta
Sign the #GreatBarringtonDeclaration:
gbdeclaration.org/
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Happy birthday to AIER's editorial director, @jeffreytucker! 🥳🎂
Leave your birthday wishes in the comments. #happybirthday #bitcoin #blockchain #economics #finance #freetrade
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Fauci Was Duplicitous on the AIDS Epidemic Too zpr.io/Rf5s3
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Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths
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"... there is this fantasy that lockdowns protect the vulnerable and that’s not true. Lockdowns have harmed the vulnerable people, lockdowns expose vulnerable people." ~@SunetraGupta
Professor Gupta: Lockdowners Should Hang their Heads in Shame aier.org/article/professor-g….
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"Sadly, we must agree, that it’s not just that the age of enlightenment has come to an end, but indeed, that the science itself has been politicized and severely corrupted."
The CDC’s Mask Mandate Study: Debunked aier.org/article/the-cdcs-ma….
@CDCgov @CDCGlobal @CDCDirector #CDC
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🧵 1/10 Argentina's economic story shows what happens when economic freedom flourishes and when it's stifled. Once the 8th richest country in the world (1910), Argentina gradually fell to become the IMF's greatest debtor by the early 21st century.
The country's trajectory offers a powerful lesson in governance, policy, and economic freedom.
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ARCHIVE | Our Editorial Director @jeffreytucker joined @Ideias_Radicais to discuss why social democracy was failing (Dec, 2018): aier.site/2GTThob. #Economics #Government #Democracy
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“During normal times, when inflation is low and stable, the floor system increases the burden on taxpayers. The burden is even larger when inflation is high, as it has been over the past two years.”
~@LouisROUANET
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Must-read from @DeAngelisCorey: "Taxpayers aren’t getting their money’s worth. And neither are the kids."
How the Chicago Teachers Union Turned the Public School System Into a Dumpster Fire: thedailyeconomy.org/article/….
@ChiPubSchools @ChicagosMayor @CTULocal1
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Is there any hope to end the fed? Watch AIER's @jeffreytucker discuss interest rates, banks, and #DonaldTrump's recent criticism of the federal reserve on this segment with @KennedyNation on #FoxNews. @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump #EndTheFed #Trump #tcot #tlot
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THREAD: Twitter Files confirm censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration
@gbdeclaration @DrJBhattacharya @SunetraGupta
@MartinKulldorff @PhilWMagness #FauciFiles #TwitterFiles
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"Government school systems have become more of a jobs program for adults than an education initiative for kids." - AIER fellow @DeAngelisCorey joins the @DineshDSouza podcast to discuss the benefits of school choice.
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The murky precepts of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) criteria wield growing influence in investing and in regulation. Those who want to understand the reshaping of our financial landscape, especially as a means to resist it, should be familiar with ESG’s terms, goals, vocabulary, and advocates.
The following are the most recent essays authored by Paul Mueller, which examine different aspects of the ESG landscape.
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🎉Happy Birthday to @AIER founder Edward C. Harwood!
E. C. Harwood, who was born today in 1900, is one of the 20th century’s most eloquent and effective voices for economic science, sound money, and market freedom. He explained credit cycles at the start of the Great Depression. He resisted the New Deal. He debated John Maynard Keynes on economic theory. He resisted wartime censorship with courageous defiance.
In 1933, he founded the first independent research institute in the United States, the American Institute for Economic Research, which today remains a home for excellence in scholarship, teaching, and commentary.
#ECHarwood #HappyBirthdayHarwood
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“The lockdowns are looking less like a gigantic error and more like the unfolding of a fanatical political ideology and policy experiment that attacks core postulates of civilization at their very root.” ~@jeffreytucker
@neil_ferguson #lockdown #fascism
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Check out the latest episode of the #LibertyCurious Podcast, in which @katewand sits down with @PhilWMagness, Senior Research Faculty at AIER, to discuss the true implications of #tariffs and #protectionism, as well as how they have impacted America's economic landscape.
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Most taxpayers don't realize that they are funding elites like Harvard President Alan Garber to spread their left-wing ideology throughout the institution. Harvard should not get a penny of taxpayer money, as AIER fellow @DeAngelisCorey explains on @FoxNews.
Watch the full segment below.
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Taylor Swift: Heroine for Property Rights zpr.io/6XB4K
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AIER's Senior Research Fellow, Paul Mueller, spoke with @jackgbradley from @NTDNews about former President Donald Trump's recent comments calling for tariffs on Chinese cars made in Mexico, a 60% tariff on all Chinese goods, and a 10% tariff on items manufactured elsewhere.
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What Good Comes from this Tragedy? aier.site/2ByrZ6V.
"I’ve learned a hugely valuable lesson that civilization can be dismantled in a matter of months."
Analysis by @jeffreytucker. #government #destruction #crisis
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Archive: "The widespread misappropriation of the language of mathematics in the social and biological sciences has to be one of the great tragedies of our time."
@SunetraGupta @gbdeclaration #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #Covid19 #EndTheLockdowns aier.org/article/professor-s…
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Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress: aier.org/article/attacks-on-…. Analysis by @BarryBrownstein.
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The Democrats oppose school choice but seem perfectly fine with taxpayer money going to liberal private schools like Harvard.
At the end of the day, the money doesn't belong to any school, public or private. It belongs to the parents for their children. They have a right to choose.
@DeAngelisCorey joins @FoxNews to discuss school choice and the hypocrisy of the Left. Watch the full segment below!
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“No matter how many times these people repeat the word ‘science,’ they are promoting precisely the opposite of science: dogma."
Medical Journal Warns About Masks’ Potentially Devastating Consequences: aier.org/article/medical-jou…. Analysis by @jeffreytucker and @Leftylockdowns1.
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"The longer lockdown policies last – in practice especially but also when defended by public health authorities – the more that elites in government and media risk a devastating loss of credibility." @jeffreytucker
The Collapse of Trust in Public Health: aier.org/article/the-collaps…
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"The young person who absorbs Econ 101 but takes no further courses in economics will nevertheless possess a genuine understanding of reality that is distressingly rare among politicians, pundits, preachers, and the general public." - Donald J. Boudreaux aier.org/article/actually-ec…
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"#Twitter is now curating the scientific debate in ways that exclude alternative points of view, particularly those that raise doubts about the need for universalized vaccines and vaccine passports."
~@jeffreytucker
cc. @gbdeclaration @MartinKulldorff
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Do you value #freedom? here's what you should be doing ⬇️
@jeffreytucker: "You should be loudly, aggressively, and courageously, in every venue you possibly can, calling for an immediate opening of the global economy."
#COVID19 #Libertarian #Tlot #Economics @SFLTurkey
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Lockdowns were ruled out in the past precisely so that the damage of a pandemic would be minimized and we could get through it more quickly. This was the science. This was the science all the way through the spring of 2020, when everything changed.
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Asymptomatic Spread Revisited zpr.io/HLTjJ
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The Emancipation of Texas: aier.org/article/the-emancip…. Analysis by @jeffreytucker, referencing @GregAbbott_TX.
"As for facemasks, those are for bandits and bank robbers, people who hide their identities because they mean you harm."
#TexasReopening #Texas #COVID19
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"What is needed is to allow children to mingle and to acquire infection naturally and harmlessly, in their schools, home, and their everyday environments."
~Dr. Paul E. Alexander
We Must Not Be Forced Into Vaccinating Our Children From COVID: aier.org/article/why-we-must….
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"@JordanBPeterson is a proponent of human freedom and human rights, a liberal in the classical sense, which is to say, a genuine liberal who believes in freedom of speech, association, and trade. That seems rather simple to observe." @jeffreytucker aier.org/article/an-educatio…
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How free is your state? Is it becoming better in recent years, or is it getting worse? The most recent edition of 'Freedom in the 50 States' is now available!
Read here👇
freedominthe50states.org.
Authored by @AIER President, William P. Ruger, and Senior Research Faculty, Jason Sorens.
#FreeStates #Freedom
@CatoInstitute @WillRuger @JasonSorens
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Two Pandemics: One Serious, One Mild aier.org/article/two-pandemi…
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“This work of economic history is not just worth reading because of its well-executed nature. It is worth reading because it is a potent reminder of how governments can fuel some of the worst disasters in human history.” ~@VincentGeloso
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Twelve Times the Lockdowners Were Wrong zpr.io/H43rP
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