[Liberating Liberty; Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness and the Creator of Man by Bert Schwitters (De Facto Publications, 2024; 621pp.)]

“The gold standard makes the determination of a nation’s currency policy independent of the changing ideas of politicians and political parties.”—Ludwig von Mises

Within libertarian and conservative vocabulary, a common term is used (usually negatively) to describe modern governments’ interference in or interruption of voluntary, cooperative social interaction or its counterproductive and costly foreign meddling—intervention. Many libertarians and conservatives—when it comes to political elites and government policies, and their interference with the free market or international relations—often prefer a default policy of non-interventionism. Is there a way that these two opposite could be coercively combined?

The employment situation in the United States continues to worsen as new layoffs mount and hiring continues to slow. 

According to today’s JOLTS report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings fell to the lowest level since December of 2020, and there are now more unemployed people in the United States than there are job openings. This last occurred during March of 2021:

Conservatives increasingly oppose the socialist State of Israel, and want out of the US’s pro-Israel wars. The old guard is very mad about this. 

Cook allegedly committed mortgage fraud, but the prosecution is really part of an effort to put more Trump personnel on the Fed Board of Governors. 

Trump claimed he could single-handedly raise taxes (tariffs) under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The appeals court disagreed.

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Thomas Paine. There can be no severer satyr on the age. For such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind, to run through such a career of mischief. Call it then the Age of Paine. — John Adams