Interventionism

If one's goal is to have a smaller carbon footprint — to say nothing of whether having a smaller carbon footprint is desirable per se — I'm not convinced that eating locally is the way to go.

The Fed has destroyed our money, funded unjust wars, given rise to a ghastly bureaucratic state, and pumped up more credit bubbles than we can count.

Without the legal system ruining the lives of nonviolent drug users, there will be a light at the end of the dark tunnel known as drug addiction.

In this article, I'll explain short selling (and the "naked" variant), its benefits to the market economy, and the harm from arbitrary government restrictions on the activity.

PDF of Peter Klein’s PowerPoint presentation.

We can live in peace, with my claiming a record that you feel is meaningless. Isn't freedom wonderful?

"To prop up the unhealthy, malinvested markets, governments must cannibalize the healthy markets to find the needed cash to transfer the wealth."

Government subsidies mean that there will be more production in the geographic space defined by the GO Zone, but this is not net new production.

The truth is that the state must hide not only its wars but all of its activities. It hides its inflation. It hides the effects of its taxation and its protectionism. It fears anyone who draws the cause-and-effect connection between its activities and their deleterious consequences for the rest of us. It is the most destructive force in our world. Because that truth is so momentous, the state does everything possible to hide the smallest drop of blood.

The ideal solution would be to completely privatize federal lands, so that the decision of whether or not to drill would no longer be a political one.