An argument can be made that nature and labor are the ultimate sources of all value—an argument that Karl Marx made in his Critique of the Gotha Program. An apple has value because it is nourishing (nature) and because it has been harvested and transported (labor). But Marx took this idea to unreasonable conclusions.

For a few days during the early weeks of the current Trump administration, it appeared that the Trump team might actually try to rein in the Federal Reserve. Trump and Elon Musk hinted that they would push for an audit of the Federal Reserve, and they even suggested that they would bring in Ron Paul to serve as an advisor on the matter. More recently, though, it seems that a meaningful critique of the Fed is going the way of that imaginary trillion dollars that the Department of Government Efficiency has already given up on cutting from the federal budget.

The Trump administration has found itself in a dispute with Harvard University. It began when the President’s team sent several Ivy League universities a list of changes they expected the schools to make.

More than three years ago, Russian forces began advancing into Ukrainian-held territory. The outcry from Washington and its allies was immediate and sharp. Russian President Vladimir Putin was denounced as a “dictator” in the press in Europe and North America–and also in Japan, where anti-Russian hyperbole has outdone even the most strident voices in the West.

In 2020, state governments forced many businesses to close their doors temporarily for “15 days to stop the spread”. Fifteen days turned into months, and in the progressive state of California it was longer than a year.

Retirement is seen almost as a right by most people in the West, especially America and Europe. Make it to your sixties and most people expect to retire from the daily grind of earning a living. Yet, especially in America, the average retirement nest egg is pathetically low at sixty-five thousand dollars. One in four Americans have no retirement savings.

In his book the Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard sets out the links between individual liberty, property rights, and the non-aggression principle. Rothbard’s explanation of property rights as the essence of liberty has greatly influenced the libertarian understanding of the NAP, but there is often a great deal of confusion as to what amounts to an act of aggression.

Palestinian Christians are denied the basic right to travel and visit sites owned by Christians long before the State of Israel ever existed. 

Trump needs more easy money for ease the economic destruction of Trump’s tax hikes. 

The dollar has fallen sharply since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.