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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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Sorry AOC, We’re All Billionaires Now (and Billionaires are Trillionaries)

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New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) recently said “You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that.” Actually we’re all billionaires now. Let me explain.

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