Japan Embraced Debt as a Way out of Its Budget Crisis. It’s Not Working.
The sudden resignation of Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led to evaluations of his so-called Abenomics.
Our Politicians Would Probably Be Better If We Picked Them by Lot
Rising Homicides This Year May Be Yet Another Side Effect of Covid Lockdowns
Why Democracy Cannot Protect Our Freedoms
Soviet Terror Was the Natural Evolution of Marx’s Communism
Self-Defense and “Taking the Law into Your Own Hands”
What Is Conservatism?
If the US Adopts Eurozone Policies, the Jobs Recovery Will Suffer
The Second Act Will Be Worse Than the First: Lockdowns Are Not the Answer
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article.
In the first presidential “debate” (I use that word creatively), Joe Biden hinted that he would order a national lockdown in order to “defeat” the covid-19 virus, and there certainly seems to be a consensus in the media and among political elites that if there is another “outbreak” of covid, then the “shelter in place” order will be the law of the land.
