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Do Wealthy Nations Need Mass Unskilled Immigration for Long-term Economic Growth?
Testing the Economic Argument for Mass Unskilled Immigration
 • Michael Magoon
The Single Tax Solution for Affordable Housing, Economic Growth, and Fairness
How a Land Value tax can drive growth, expand housing supply, and replace existing taxes in practice
 • Michael Magoon
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis and the Missing Layer in U.S. Naval Power
The U.S. can keep chokepoints open, but only by overusing its most powerful ships. A modern escort fleet would fix that.
 • Michael Magoon
How AI Could Quietly Erase Centuries of Knowledge and How to Stop It
Our Current Internet-Trained AI Narrows and Biases What We Know
 • Michael Magoon
How to Cut Rents Fast Without Spending Tax Dollars
Legalizing the Cheapest Housing Forms to Fix America’s Rental Crisis.
 • Michael Magoon
Europe Doesn’t Need 5% Defense Spending: It Needs Finland’s Reserve Army Model
The only affordable way for Europe to deter Russia is to copy the one system that already works: Finland’s.
 • Michael Magoon
A Progress-Based Immigration Reform That Both MAGA and Middle America Can Support
How a simple, skills-first system can unite Americans, strengthen the economy, and restore fairness to immigration.
 • Michael Magoon
Policies to promote Upward Mobility for the working class and poor (the series)
A Table of Contents with links to a series of articles on this topic.
 • Michael Magoon
Policies to promote material progress (the series)
A Table of Contents with links to a series of articles on this topic.
 • Michael Magoon
Building Abundance: How the Northeast Rail Corridor Could Prove America Can Still Build
A high-speed rail plan that unites progressives, MAGA, fiscal conservatives, and private investors.
 • Michael Magoon
From Federal Republic to Administrative State
How a century of bureaucracy eroded the Tenth Amendment and reshaped American self-government.
 • Michael Magoon
Why Trump should overhaul the welfare state to promote Upward Mobility
These policies would solidify Trump's popularity with the working class of all races.
 • Michael Magoon
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