Yesterday’s Inspector General report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton contained plenty of bombshells, including a promise by lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok that “We’ll stop” Donald Trump from becoming president. The report reveals how unjustified secrecy and squirrelly decisions helped ravage the credibility of both Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the FBI. But few commentators are recognizing the vast peril to democracy posed by the sweeping prerogatives of federal agencies.

A balanced budget requirement is neither necessary nor sufficient for good fiscal policy.

On March 22, Donald Trump announced a new series of tariffs on products coming from China. When Trump announced the measures, he assured everyone of two things: First, the move would “make the country stronger and richer.” Second, the trade deficit with China, supposedly amounting to $375 billion, was “the greatest deficit of any country in the history of the world.”

According to conventional wisdom, one of the prerequisites for a civilized society is a system of government enforced licensing of numerous occupations.

Licensing laws establish the standards (e.g. educational) to be met before people are legally permitted to sell specified services. The government says the safety and wellbeing of consumers impels it to enact these laws, which ensure the superior quality of various products and services purchased by consumers, as compared to what would be available in the absence of such laws.

In a story that could only happen in 2018, septuagenarian Bernie Sanders took to twitter to agree with someone called Cardi B – who my teenage daughter tells me is a popular singer – about the importance of strengthening Social Security.

Sanders claimed that Social Security enables seniors to “retire with the dignity they deserve,” while Ms. B praised FDR for its creation.

It’s dead. No, not the Internet. Net neutrality. After months of legal challenges, public backlash, and Democrats trying to overturn it, the repeal of net neutrality has finally been completed. You can now count to three and wait for the likes of John Oliver and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to hysterically declare – yet again – that the internet is coming to an end and that the only webpage you will access for free is DonaldJTrump.com.

Whatever our faults, it can never be said that libertarians need to read more. I’ve never known a group of people to consume such large doses of dense and dismally boring literature than the liberty community. However, I sometimes get the impression that our literary excursions rarely deviate from our own literature. This is understandable, of course. With tireless scholars like Murray Rothbard among the ranks of liberty writers, our reading list never ends.

In the Austrian view, every individual is seen as employing the resources or means at his disposal in order to secure various ends. The use of resources is not done haphazardly but in accordance with an individual’s priorities. The individual ranks various ends or goals that he wants to attain.