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The Mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty is to apply the perennial truths of economics and ethics to the urgent challenges of today. We are building a sustained argument against the progressive ideological regime that increasingly dominates America’s institutions and rebuilding the foundation of the nation’s first principles: freedom, equality, charity, and the pursuit of happiness for all. Read more.

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Veterans Day: The Holiday Whose Time Has Come

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November 12, 2025
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The U.S. has always stood for freedom and against aggression and tyranny. Surely many Americans who enlisted to serve in wartime knew neither the forsaken places they were going nor what they would encounter, but they all had a distinct conviction that they were fighting not only to set overseas captives free but to protect freedom at home.

The BRICS Need Gold Bank Accounts: Nathan Lewis; November 8, 2025; 3; Currency

Iceland: More Entrepreneurs or More Bureaucrats?: Gale Pooley; November 3, 2025; 8; Abundance

The BRICS’s New Gold Settlement Architecture Is Being Built — But Won’t Be Needed: Nathan Lewis; October 28, 2025; 5; Currency

The Indian American Community Deserves Immigration Fairness: Walter Myers III; October 7, 2025; 5; Economic Policy

How Africa Can Get Rich: Nathan Lewis; October 1, 2025; 5; Economic Policy

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Little Saigon Left Behind: Crime, Chaos, and Political Silence

Michele Steeb Tells NTD News Trump Is Not Criminalizing the Homeless: Center on Wealth & Poverty; August 12, 2025; Homelessness

Robert Marbut Defends Trump’s Homeless Executive Order on Chris Cuomo’s Show: Center on Wealth & Poverty; July 28, 2025; Homelessness

Robert Marbut Talks New Homelessness Executive Order on News Nation: Center on Wealth & Poverty; July 25, 2025; Homelessness

The Toxic Patterns that Keep People on the Streets: Jonathan Choe; June 11, 2025; Homelessness

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