Forget Security Clearance, John Brennan Should Be Prosecuted
In the year 2018, it is not remotely shocking to see media attention shift seamlessly from reality show villains to former CIA directors. The Trump Administration’s announcement that it has revoked the security clearance for John Brennan, America’s former Communist-sympathetic spymaster, naturally resulted in a race to see who among the professional political class could be most dramatic in their condemnation.
Bake the Cake: The State of Colorado Is Still Persecuting Baker Jack Phillips
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is at it again. It’s going after Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips for refusing to “make a cake with a pink inside and a blue outside, celebrating a gender transition from male to female.”
This comes only months after the US Supreme Court ruled against the Commission’s regulatory attack on Phillips for not baking a cake for a gay wedding.
The Problem with Historical Illustrations of Free-Banking Systems
Neo-banking authors devote strong efforts to historical studies which they intend to support the thesis that a free-banking system would protect economies from cycles of boom and depression, owing to the “monetary equilibrium” mechanism. Nevertheless the empirical studies produced thus far have not focused on whether free-banking systems have prevented credit expansion, artificial booms and economic recessions.
Why the Quota System Is One of the Worst Ways of Regulating Immigration
When it comes to the immigration debate, very few people advocate for either totally closed borders or totally open borders. However, as soon as it is admitted that at least some movement across borders ought to be allowed — or that at least some of the migrants are to be regulated — the question quickly arises: which migrants are to be allowed, and which are to be prevented entry?
Congress Has Become Very Good at Spending Money
This week President Trump signed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, increasing America’s war budget to a whopping $717 billion. For comparison, this is roughly equal to the next 11 highest military budgets combined.
Controlling Missouri, Part 2: This Means War
Immigration Roundtable: Ludwig von Mises
[Editor’s note: our immigration roundtable is a series of articles presenting the views of prominent Austrian and libertarian thinkers. By necessity each article provides only a basic overview of those views, with links to original sources.]
An audio version of this article is available here.
British Manufacturing Slumps as Bank of England Raises Interest Rates
The Mission of the Mises Institute, In One Paragraph
The mission of the Mises Institute, as presaged by Ludwig von Mises in his 1962 review of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State:
