Mercantilism Smells Like Stagflation
After two days of panic selling of stocks, recession and stagflation have become part of the conversation.
Ukraine’s dictator Zelensky extends martial law
Elections suspended again. After abolishing the freedom of religion and the freedom of speech. To save “democracy.”
“Libertarian” Peter Thiel’s company lands yet another taxpayer funded contract
CIA pal Thiel’s “entrepreneurship” mostly involves lobbying for gov’t contracts. And then using that money to build the surveillance state.
New White House report on the lab leak origins of covid
Federal bureaucratic parasite Anthony Fauci said covid came from people eating bats. He was lying. New report shows covid origins in US-funded lab.
Technology Transfer Can Help Transform Developing Countries
Discussions on economic development in developing countries often overlook a critical factor: technology transfer. Yet, history demonstrates that technological diffusion is essential to economic growth. While innovators undoubtedly shape industries, it is often the imitators who reap the greatest rewards. These late-comers learn from pioneers, adopting and refining existing technologies to enhance productivity.
Prospects for Hyperinflation
Realism as a Libertarian Foreign Policy
Several schools of thought dominate geopolitical discourse in the chaotic world of international relations. Interventionists of all labels wish for the United States to police the world to some extent while warning of the perils of “isolationism.” At the same time, the United States shirks that same authority when the rules-based order conflicts with the whims of Washington. The libertarian should have a healthy skepticism of the state and recognize attempts to further expand its geographical jurisdiction as an assault on liberty.
Mises’s “Fight Against Error”
One of my favorite sections of Ludwig von Mises’s majestic treatise Human Action (1949) is a rather short one titled “The Fight Against Error.” Its main theme is to show how mankind’s problems come down to errors arising from flawed economic ideologies.
Beyond England: A Classical Liberal Critique of Hayek’s “The Origins of the Rule of Law”
In Chapter 11 of The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich Hayek offers a sweeping genealogy of liberty, locating its true birth in the constitutional evolution of seventeenth-century England. “Individual liberty in modern times,” he writes, “can hardly be traced back farther than the England of the seventeenth century.” This claim has shaped generations of classical liberals and libertarians who have looked to the Glorious Revolution, common law, and Parliament as the fountainhead of modern freedom.
