The Freeman

Est. 1950

[Lisa De Pasquale @LisaDeP]

From my article for @feeonline's @TheFreemanMag: As Baby Boomers age, some experts are warning that Gen X isn’t prepared for the “Great Wealth Transfer.” In a 2023 article from Kiplinger, a financial planner discussed the importance of generational wealth transfer planning for Gen X in light of wealth transferring from Boomers to younger generations. ...Baby Boomers letting go of their amassed fortunes? As Carl the Janitor from The Breakfast Club said, “Don’t count on it.” https://t.co/BYcCp9jBJ7

[Ephie Bernstein @EphieBernstein]

My favorite read so far today.
@feeonline ‘s @TheFreemanMag has an excellent interview with @nickgillespie

Nick Gillespie’s Long, Strange Trip

In Conversation with Reason’s Editor-At-Large, Part I

https://t.co/5QMY5qCRcQ

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@Sergio_Econ Read the full piece: https://t.co/FRuAkJwWAT

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Roger Garrison showed that the interest rate is one of the economy's most important signals.

When it's manipulated, the consequences don't disappear... they just get delayed.

@Sergio_Econ on why it still matters:

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Affordable, abundant energy is one of the most direct paths to human flourishing.

The UK has it within reach.

Harry Phibbs on what's really behind Britain's ongoing energy crisis:

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@erikwmatson Read the full piece: https://t.co/Ng1jEbYrGo

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When the economic case for free markets gets too strong to argue with, the argument usually shifts to culture and ethics instead.

@erikwmatson on why cultural arguments still have to survive economic scrutiny:

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Read the full piece: https://t.co/c2cqA1u27K

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The creation of new wealth usually depends on knowledge, insight, and creativity.

Things that flourish in freedom, and wither under control.

This 1986 Freeman piece reads like it was written for today:

[Roberto Salinas León @rsalinasleon]

Civilized conversation and constructive debate would gain a great deal of significant clarity if the dispute on “neoliberalism” was abandoned.
As @PhilWMagness of the @IndependentInst and Robert Lawson of the @SMUCoxBridwell have recently shown, the term has become devoid of any meaningful content, a pejorative label that allows opponents to abuse it as a convenient catch-phrase to blame everything and anything that is wrong with the world.
This renders the exchange a boring semantic debate.
@TheFreemanMag vía @feeonline.
https://t.co/UsflDu7r4y

[Erik Matson @erikwmatson]

A new essay by me at @TheFreemanMag: "Castles on Economic Sand."

"One can have a variety of viewpoints about the good life and the appropriate set of political arrangements for promoting it. But one cannot, as Kenneth Boulding once remarked, build political and ethical castles on economics sand—and this is precisely what many of those in our political and intellectual classes have made a career in."

https://t.co/DATh2r9fyJ

[Tony Williams @TWilliamsAuthor]

@TheFreemanMag @allenmendenhall This is a great review by Allen Mendenhall. A thorough, wonderfully-written, and balanced review on a close reading of the book! Thank you for posting and hosting his review!

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@rsalinasleon Read the full piece: https://t.co/DHzIbL2irp

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"Neoliberalism" doesn't have a definition.

In Latin America and beyond, "neoliberalism" is a catch-all term, it means everything so it ends up meaning nothing.

@rsalinasleon breaks down why when a label substitutes for an argument, the ideas underneath it can be missed:

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@allenmendenhall Read the full piece: https://t.co/9tE9kas7Lp

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The enduring power of the Declaration lies in its ability to provoke argument, reflection, and renewal.

250 years later, it still does.

@allenmendenhall reviews a timely new book on America's oldest debate:

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@ASFleischman Read the full piece: https://t.co/EtvD8PFBXv

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Speech isn't free if it comes with a price tag.

@ASFleischman on SLAPP lawsuits and why losing doesn't matter to the people filing them:

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Read the full piece: https://t.co/a4TJNjFt7f

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When the government's response to a housing crisis is to blame foreigners and promise more public housing...

The structural problems don't necessarily go away.

Mark Nayler on Spain's economic balancing act: