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The New Year Is a Time of Hope

The New Year Is a Time of Hope
People take a selfie with the Christmas tree displayed outside the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 16, 2024. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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We’ve all felt this building now for several months, but the drama is reaching a crescendo and a conclusion with the turning of 2024 to 2025. The end of the first quarter of the 21st century seems to be ending in the most implausible but widely shared emotion: hope itself. New Year’s seems like just a date on the calendar, but this time it means much more.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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