The NFL Draft and Public Buses
The 2026 NFL draft was held in Pittsburgh, which was the first time in the city since 1946. This year’s draft also broke attendance records with north of 800,000 people attending the final day.
Airlines and the Spirit of Enterprise
In 2022, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines announced an agreement to an acquisition of Spirit by JetBlue in a $3.8 billion transaction, mostly involving an exchange of stock. The acquisition would have catapulted JetBlue from a distant #5 in the airline industry (behind United, American, Delta and Southwest) to a near rival, perhaps expanding the Big 4 to a Big 5.
Want to Cut Taxes? Reduce Government Spending.
Projects that the government undertakes are likely to be of a questionable nature. The fact that the private sector did not undertake these projects indicates that these projects were not demanded or prioritized by consumers. For example, if the government decides to build a pyramid, it is evident that most people regard this as a low or non-existent priority.
Federal Prosecutor: “I’d Like to Prosecute Any Nun Who Still Wears the Head Habit”
DOJ prosecutor Gaston replied: “I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting [habited nuns].”
Wall Street and Sound Money
“Wall Street cannot be counted on to do anything to move the American monetary system towards the proper sound money standard we so desperately need – indeed, quite the opposite.”
Ft. Knox Full of Impure Gold Unfit for International Transactions
How Government Debt Reshapes the Economy
Government debt is no longer a distant policy problem—it is a present economic reality shaping everything from inflation to interest rates. The United States continues to run massive deficits year after year, with total debt climbing into levels that would have once been considered unthinkable. Yet, despite the scale of the problem, political incentives remain unchanged: spend more, borrow more, and push the consequences into the future.
Gold, Rules, and the Limits of Monetary Control: The Fallacy of Monetary Control
In 1971, when the last formal link between the dollar and gold was severed, more than a monetary system collapsed. Something more subtle, and more consequential, was quietly abandoned: the very idea of a limit—not a technical constraint subject to adjustment—but an ontological boundary separating what can be deliberately produced from what can only emerge through human action over time. Once that boundary disappeared, money ceased to resist and became, for the first time, fully administrable.
When America Chose Empire
In 1901, on far-away Balangiga—a village in Eastern Samar of the Philippines—an American general gave an order that stripped away any notion of “civilizing” or “Christianizing” a foreign people: “Make it a howling wilderness.”