Stablecoins are the next big thing. While the first ones were issued in 2014, they are now gaining significant momentum through the US GENIUS Act, passed on July 17, 2025. So, what are stablecoins?

Stablecoins are tradable, liquid “tokens” that represent an underlying asset or promise a fixed exchange ratio with it; they can be described as “money substitutes.” Stablecoins come in various types:

During the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, an interesting exchange took place on The Phil Donahue Show that is representative of a few collectivist category errors.

Disclosure by the FBI to Congress answers a long-simmering question but does not reveal what the agents did that day.

As in the US, immigration control is used in the UK as an excuse to push more government surveillance and control. 

Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay on “Civil Disobedience” is still catnip 175 years later. His summons to individuals to march to the beat of their own drum is a message that will continue to resonate as long as drums and dissonance exist. Thoreau vividly debunked the folly of people squandering their lives stockpiling unnecessary possessions.

“Government at its core is the negation of freedom. Hence it wants to silence those who expose its errors and rid itself of those who challenge it.”

If you’re not familiar with David M. Hart’s online library of texts from classical liberals and libertarians, be sure to check it out here. In many cases, Hart’s site contains some of the only English translations (that I know of) of texts from radical French theorists. 

Many Americans today mistakenly believe that slavery was invented by America or that it existed only in the context of the transatlantic slave trade. This narrow view—often echoed in modern demands for reparations—paints white societies as uniquely responsible for slavery’s horrors. Yet long before European ships reached Africa’s coasts, Africans were capturing, owning, and exploiting slaves in systems that were brutal and widespread.