As Elon Musk continues to take over and wind down parts of the federal bureaucracy, establishment figures from across media and politics are growing increasingly resentful of the tech entrepreneur. If you read a national newspaper, turn on a major news channel, or tune into one of the establishment’s many late-night “satire” shows, you’re bound to see Musk getting mocked and criticized relentlessly.

Tom Woods and I talk about the need to look beyond the Trump administration to plan for a realistic ideological and political plan moving forward. Trump’s election victory was by a very slim margin and the US is still deeply divided. In fact, the break-up of the United States is inevitable: 

In modern democratic states, such as our own, the debate over who gets naturalized is essentially synonymous with the debate over who gets the legal right to vote.

The sentence “I think we should expand the number of foreign nationals who are naturalized.” Is functionally the same thing as saying “I think we should expand the number of foreign nationals who vote.” There is no meaningful difference between the two statements.

The Fed is in the business of generating inflation. It might attempt to stop the effects of inflation, namely rising prices. But under the old definition of inflation — an artificial increase in the supply of money and credit — the entire reason for the Fed’s existence is to generate more, not less of it. — Ron Paul, End the Fed (emphasis mine)

On December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, accusing the Democratic Party—South Korea’s majority party in the National Assembly—of being “anti-statist” and “collaborating with North Korean communists to destroy the country.” Yoon deployed airborne troops to neutralize the National Assembly and the National Election Commission, attempting to consolidate power by establishing an emergency legislative body to rep

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Minor Issues podcast. I am Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute.

In his book, When in the Course of Human Events, Charles Adams cautions against humiliating one’s opponents at the end of a war, as doing so only makes it more likely that conflict will erupt once more. The importance of this caution is well illustrated by the “Reconstruction” of the South.

President Trump said a couple of weeks ago that he would impose punitive tariffs on Mexican and Canadian exports to the United States. The main reason for this was that these countries did not do enough to stop illegal immigrants from entering our country. But this problem can be handled by better border control. There is no need for tariffs, which hurt American consumers, as we will explain below. Fortunately, he has suspended putting these tariffs into effect for one month, but who knows what he will do after that?