The attack on a Christmas market in Berlin earlier this week, apparently carried out by a Pakistani immigrant* , is just the latest in a series of violent and disturbing terrorist incidents in Germany.

Now in mailboxes, the year-end issue of The Austrian is also now online [PDF]. In this issue, we try to end the year on a high note with Tom Woods and Edward Stringham offering insights on how private markets can make our lives better. Perhaps even better is the fact that — as David Gordon points out — central banks don’t even have faith in their own schemes anymore. 

This article is adapted from this November 25 audio interview. 

Jeff Deist: Justin Raimondo recently wrote an article called “How We Will Win,” which was about the Trump Revolution and basically talking about the libertarian angles that you sometimes have to look hard for in that revolution.

Paul Krugman’s decay from Nobel Prize winning economist to partisan hack has only escalated since taking control of his Twitter account (it was previously used to simply link to his New York Times columns.) Some notable 2016 lowlights include Krugman accusing the FBI of working with Russia, one of the more impressive

Billionaire Phil Ruffin has been quoted as saying, “I like to negotiate.” President-elect Trump reminds us often of what a great negotiator he is.

Except not right now, and not with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226.

Last December, more than half the 500 eligible workers at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas voted to join the Union. However, Ruffin and his 50 percent partner, President-elect Donald Trump, allegedly refused to recognize, or bargain with, the Union which dominates employment on the Las Vegas Strip with an estimated 57,000 members.

U.S. Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the ranking Democrat in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, recently told ESPN that current federal gambling laws are “obsolete” and “in desperate need of updating,” including those that deal with sports betting. Said Pallone: