Last year, Paypal corporation announced that it was going to “fine” users (i.e., steal their money) to the tune of $2,500 for “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” which “promote misinformation.” Well, Paypal didn’t “announce” the policy so much as try to sneak it into the fine print. When the company was
What happened to the comments sections at mises.org? Unfortunately, we had to eliminate the comments, for now. The amount of spam was becoming difficult to manage, it was taking up a lot of staff time, and it was all slowing down the site quite a bit. The spam you did see what just the tip of the iceberg. However, some of our fine readers have put
In today’s episode of Radio Rothbard , Mark Thornton and I both mentioned the yield curve’s inversion as an alarming indicator of a significant recession in the not-too-distant future. For more on why an inversion of the yield curve predicts recession can be found here and here . Thornton mentioned that the most recent inversion of the yield
The US Justice Department on Monday sued the State of Texas over floating barriers installed by the state government in the Rio Grande river. The state government had installed the barrier to block migrants crossing from Mexico. The measure also accompanies other efforts by the state to control border access, such as laying razor wire along many
A federal judge this week vacated the desertion conviction of former US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl , who was convicted in 2017 of desertion for leaving his post in Afghanistan. Bergdahl was then captured by Taliban forces, tortured, and imprisoned for four years before being freed by a prisoner exchange in 2014. Since his release, Bergdahl has
If you have an actual life and important things to do, you probably haven’t been paying attention to the latest debt-ceiling theater now going on in Congress. Congress is indeed at it again, however, and the leadership from the GOP and the Democrats are fighting over how federal tax dollars will be spent over the next year. Until an agreement is
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today ruled against a Hawaii state law banning the possession, manufacture, and sale in the state. Bloomberg Law reports the appeals court: instructed the lower court to continue proceedings in compliance with its determination that butterfly knifes are protected by the Second Amendment. A butterfly
Last Thursday, Enrique Tarrio, a reputed national leader of the Proud Boys organization was convicted in federal court of seditious conspiracy along with three-co-defendants . This conviction in a District of Columbia court represents a victory for the Justice Department which has now charged more than a thousand people with “crimes” related to
I was on the Judge’s podcast this morning, Judging Freedom, to talk about secession, decentralization, civil war, and my book ‘Breaking Away.’ It was short and sweet at 17 minutes. If you haven’t yet got yours, be sure to get a copy of my book in the
Earlier this month, Larry Kudlow insisted that it is “it’s incumbent on the U.S. government, no matter who’s in power, to maintain the reserve currency status of the dollar.” Kudlow laments that a toppling of the dollar from that perch ”seems to be the direction we’re going in.” Kudlow’s remarks came a day after Donald Trump declared that China
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