How Unions Used Licensing to Crush Ethnic Barbershops
For far too long, historians who wrote on inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations focused almost exclusively on the victimization of various groups while ignoring the entrepreneurship and mutual aid that took place within those same ethnic groups.
Living With Your Parents
There is nothing wrong with living with your parents as a young adult. After graduating from college you can save money to pay off your college loans or to save up for a down payment on your own house. You can also contribute to your parents living standard by paying some rent, paying some utilities, or doing your old chores around the house. I’ve know plenty of young adults and even older adults who have moved back home to everyone’s mutual benefit. I kinda wish I had been able to live with my parents for a while and got to know them as an adult.
Ten Fundamental Laws of Economics
In the midst of so many economic fallacies being repeatedly seemingly without end, it may be helpful to return to some of the most basic laws of economics. Here are ten of them that bear repeating again and again.
1. Production precedes consumption
Market Borders, not Open Borders
The attack on a Christmas market in Berlin earlier this week, apparently carried out by a Pakistani immigrant* , is just the latest in a series of violent and disturbing terrorist incidents in Germany.
The November-December Issue of The Austrian Is Now Online!
Now in mailboxes, the year-end issue of The Austrian is also now online [PDF]. In this issue, we try to end the year on a high note with Tom Woods and Edward Stringham offering insights on how private markets can make our lives better. Perhaps even better is the fact that — as David Gordon points out — central banks don’t even have faith in their own schemes anymore.
Justin Raimondo: What Trump Means
This article is adapted from this November 25 audio interview.
Jeff Deist: Justin Raimondo recently wrote an article called “How We Will Win,” which was about the Trump Revolution and basically talking about the libertarian angles that you sometimes have to look hard for in that revolution.
The Mises Reader
Paul Krugman’s Latest Conspiracy: Trump Is A Gold Bug
Paul Krugman’s decay from Nobel Prize winning economist to partisan hack has only escalated since taking control of his Twitter account (it was previously used to simply link to his New York Times columns.) Some notable 2016 lowlights include Krugman accusing the FBI of working with Russia, one of the more impressive
Change May be Coming to the National Labor Relations Board
Billionaire Phil Ruffin has been quoted as saying, “I like to negotiate.” President-elect Trump reminds us often of what a great negotiator he is.
Except not right now, and not with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226.
Last December, more than half the 500 eligible workers at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas voted to join the Union. However, Ruffin and his 50 percent partner, President-elect Donald Trump, allegedly refused to recognize, or bargain with, the Union which dominates employment on the Las Vegas Strip with an estimated 57,000 members.