The story of Joe Biden’s mental decline—hidden in plain sight by the legacy media—has become The Story That Will Not Die. While the media are blaming Biden’s White House staff, as well as former First Lady Jill Biden, the real reason this scandal—and it is a scandal—has existed is the legacy media itself.
On Monday’s Episode of the Tucker Carlson Show, Carlson interviewed Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, largely to discuss topics related to the election of Pope Leo XIV. Most of the interview is unremarkable for our purposes here at mises.org, but at one point, the discussion touched on the problem of usury and the modern financial economy.
Thomas DiLorenzo joins CapitalCosm to discuss the growing interest in gold at the state level
Thomas DiLorenzo joins the New American’s Alex Newman to discuss “Federal Reserve: The Ultimate Deep State Tool of Control & Destruction“
As an economist, I am often asked how fast the money supply should grow. The answer is simple: it shouldn’t. In fact, once an economy has a money supply, any amount is optimal. This answer is often met with confusion because it is so far outside of their expectations. To build my case, let us make a simple argument.
The trade problem that America faces today is not new. It is rooted in what economists call the Triffin trilemma—also known as the Triffin dilemma or Triffin paradox—named after Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin. This principle highlights a fundamental contradiction: a national currency such as the US dollar cannot simultaneously serve as both a stable domestic currency and the world’s primary reserve currency without generating trade imbalances.
The fight against lab-grown meat has picked up considerable steam over the past year, with multiple states now prohibiting its manufacture, sale, and distribution. Florida became the first state to prohibit cultivated meat when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1084 into law on May 1, 2024.
So far, in his second term, Donald Trump’s biggest headaches haven’t come from the Democrats or his fellow Republicans. Nor have they come from the groups that were his biggest enemies in his first term—the media, federal bureaucrats, or the intelligence agencies.
This time around, Trump’s biggest difficulties are coming from the courts.
Donald Trump is helping build a bigger surveillance state, and naturally, he’s using taxpayer dollars to do it. Since beginning his second term, Donald Trump has joined forces with the CIA front company Palantir to build a massive new database on hundreds of millions of Americans. The database can be used in the future to track and search Americans’ tax returns, bank accounts, spending patterns, travel, and much more.
