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21.11.2024
In an outrageous act, lame-duck President Joe Biden gives Ukraine permission to fire US-made missiles into Russia itself. Given Russian President Putin's
In an outrageous act, lame duck President Joe Biden gives Ukraine permission to fire US-made missiles into Russia itself. Given Russian President Putin's
One of the most encouraging and promising things President-elect Trump said in his post-election acceptance speech was, “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going
One does not need to be an advocate of open borders to have concerns when one hears about a federal law enforcement agency engaging in a “crackdown.”See also "A
Although he has presided over numerous economic disasters and people are leaving the state, there are many who will want him for 2028.
In Europe, just as in the US, governments have decreed that “not enough” people are buying EVs. Now the French government wants to force more EV sales.
20.11.2024
One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more than others.
David Gordon takes another look at Thomas Nagel's Equality and Partiality. While he finds some of Nagel's arguments appealing, they still are inferior to Murray
Had Republicans not vastly expanded federal criminal law during the infamous Wall Street prosecutions 40 years ago, lawfare would not have become such a potent
While most of us are familiar with Gresham‘s Law, we should remember that it does not mean that bad money is preferred to good money. Instead, it refers to a
One does not need to be an advocate of open borders to have concerns when one hears about a federal law enforcement agency engaging in a “crackdown.”
In this review of Scott Horton's book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has waged for the past quarter century in the Middle East have been a
There are numerous critics of the Austrian School of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the so-called experts themselves are wrong.
With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve
Donald Trump is a strong believer in protective tariffs, and this is very bad news for those of us who support the free market. In Trump’s opinion, tariffs are
This week, the people who run the Biden administration escalated tensions between Russia and the US by giving the Ukrainian regime authorization to use
Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France's minister of finance.Original article: The
Kamala Harris claims that she simply wants food prices to be lower. However, her de facto price fixing scheme would create food shortages and raise the real
19.11.2024
Amy LePore's doctoral dissertation covered the perverse incentives of federal money for disaster management on local officials. She joins Bob to talk about
As Joseph Schumpeter noted, markets need “creative destruction” to survive and advance. However, Europe‘s Digital Market Act (DMA)—while written to ostensibly
The $100 trillion fiscal timebomb means lower growth, lower real wages, financial repression, and destruction of the currencies’ purchasing power in the
With the election of Donald Trump, we are seeing repeated use of another F-word to describe the direction America is going: fascist. But is that what is
On his podcast “Verdict” November 13, Ted Cruz mentioned one of my favorite books by Ludwig von Mises: Bureaucracy. He mentioned it in reference to the
Modern academic economics is based upon the methodologies used to study the natural sciences. However, such methodologies are inappropriate to study economics,
Let’s be realistic. The U.S. needs pro-growth strategies and tax cuts, but no administration will be able to offset a $1 trillion increase in mandatory spending
17.11.2024
One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as soldiers in the Confederate army. While
Unfortunately, we find that today's MAGA economics is in many ways a retread of the failed supply-side economics of old.
Nigeria has large oil deposits, educated people, and much economic potential. However, thanks to government intervention, Nigeria‘s promising economy is in
Yes, college professors are 10-to-1 Democrats over Republicans. Mark Thornton reviews some of the technical literature on the political ideology of college
16.11.2024
Elite higher education in the US often seems to be a caricature of itself. As David Gordon shows, Yale University‘s Jason Stanley has redefined fascism to
While it is often framed in the media as a battle between principled conservatives and an angry, non-ideological movement focused solely on personal loyalty to
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris on November 5, millions of American women—especially those of Generation Z, born between
The Treasury Department posted its latest revenue and spending totals this week, and deficits continue to mount at impressive speed. During October—the first
Jerome Powell yesterday struck a far more cautious tone on price inflation and stated “The economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to
Critics of free markets claim that the 1980s and 90s were near-pure laissez-faire when, in reality, the regulatory state only got stronger.
Economist Bryan Caplan has held up the United Arab Emirates as an example of how open borders can be successful. Caplan clearly does not understand how
15.11.2024
Elections can have important impacts on the economy, but the most important ones are preceded by some kind of revolution in the world of ideas, for good or
This might sound radical or extreme, but the US somehow managed to get along for more than 225 years before this department was created.
The democratic mandate of the incoming Trump administration, along with Republican control of Congress and a confrontation of wills between the President-elect
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