Are all certification outfits created the same? Should the government impose free market features? Any pro-market health economists out there?

With Batman vs. Superman hitting theaters, movie goers will be treated to Zack Snyder’s new take on the legendary caped crusader. Snyder, who reported last week that he’s currently working on a new adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, has often talked about drawing inspiration from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns when coming up with the direction for the sequel to his Superman origin story, Man of Steel.

In this video, Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams discuss whether or not protectionism will improve the American economy. 

Specifically, Paul and McAdams reference this article by Walter Williams in which Williams notes:

In my previous column, I noted both the fallacy that libertarianism is inherently “atomistic” as well as the scientific fact that while morality — such as the Golden Rule, may be applied universally — human cooperation and empathy are not. We are hemmed in by “Dunbar’s number” which limits the number of social relationships any one person can have at any given time to approximately 150.

My most recent post featured links to a radio episode and magazine article that briefly mentioned the plight of citizens as it related to nutrition after the Castro Revolution. If you are interested in learning more about the consequences of socialism for Cuba I recommend the following:

This is an article by one of my favorite conservative authors, Theodore Dalrymple. The piece is about fourteen years old and still as prescient as ever. The truth always is:

Recessions are good for an economy because they involve a resolution process whereby malinvestments are re-purposed to better serve consumers and whereby labor is reallocated to better serve consumers. All the bad decisions that took place during the boom are thereby resolved.

In his book on guerrilla warfare, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, neoconservative and foreign interventionist extraordinaire Max Boot devotes a sizable amount of energy to looking at how states can be successful in counterinsurgency.

Boot has no moral problem with occupying foreign countries and with nation building, but he does think there is a correct way and in incorrect way to do it.

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18, no. 4 (Winter 2015): 456–486

What is most criticized in our social order is the inequality in the distribution of wealth and income, There are rich and poor; there are very rich and very poor. The way out is not far to seek: the equal distribution of all wealth.

Simple Janet should have the decency to resign. The Fed’s craven decision last week to punt on interest rate normalization is not merely a reminder that she is clueless and gutless; we already knew that much.