Texas is well-known as the “Lone Star State” and is the site of perhaps the strongest secessionist impulse in the United States today. But what if the way in which Texas was annexed into the Union in the first place was ill-advised and questionably accomplished?

The following is published from an X thread from Dr. Peter Klein, Mises Senior Fellow.

Trump justifies his war on Venezuela by saying that “they” stole “our” oil. Unpacking this claim gives us insight into Trump’s version of crony capitalism – a system of private ownership in which the state intervenes to promote the interests of politically connected firms.

It is commonly held that the long-term interest rate is an average of current and expected short-term interest rates. The short-term interest rate, it is maintained, is determined by the central bank policy rate, such as the federal funds rate in the US.

Many libertarians hope that Donald Trump would favor many free market policies. The claim by these libertarians was that, aside from obvious exceptions like eminent domain and tariffs, he was basically sympathetic to the free market. Unfortunately, these hopes have not been fulfilled, and in this week’s article, I’ll try to show this. Before going ahead, though, I’d like to avert a possible misunderstanding. The issue we have to deal with is Trump’s policy, not whether he was a marginally more acceptable choice for president than his Democratic Party opponent, the “woke” Kamala Harris.

Where is the “duly elected” president we were told about? Turns out none of the US-supported leaders have enough public support to take power.