In the end, Fedgov will just print more money and raise taxes. Social security will be preserved by politicians to ensure that  elected officials don’t lose the votes of pensioners. 

New WaPo piece is a tour de force of bad economics on the “dangers” of deflation. 

CBS: The cryptocurrency dropped more than 8% in the last 24 hours alone, falling to $84,096 as of 11:15 a.m. on Monday.

The transformation that occurred in Plymouth Colony in 1623, when Governor William Bradford abandoned the communal labor system and reassigned corn plots to individual households, has long been misunderstood. Popular narratives either reduce it to a bare logistical adjustment necessitated by famine or inflate it into a proto-capitalist awakening. Both interpretations flatten the complexity of what Bradford actually witnessed and recorded.

According to Australia’s Sky News, Donald Trump told Nicolás Maduro in call he must leave Venezuela in order to save himself and his family.

Likely: if a tick “accidentally” escapes from the US lab, then the federal government will mandate mRNA vaccines for all US livestock. 

Among the many figures who contributed to the growth and refinement of classical liberalism in Europe, few are more deserving of renewed attention than Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810–1870). A French Catholic nobleman, publicist, parliamentarian, and intellectual, Montalembert stood at the center of the 19th century struggle to reconcile Catholicism with political liberty at a time when both reactionary monarchists and militant secularists claimed exclusive ownership of France’s future.

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Socialism always sells itself on empathy. New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s agenda—“free” public transit, frozen rents, and government-mandated equality—sounds merciful on the surface. But it rests on a fatal delusion: that force can manufacture fairness and that wealth can be ordered into existence.