The Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act—introduced by Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo.—is another attempt to stifle free speech, the free market, infringe on personal freedoms, and damage market processes.
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he would be turning things upside down, and he has kept his promises. All one has to do is to read the latest edition of the New York Times to see how the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is responding: rage, rage, and more rage, as the following editorial declares:
“An inhabitant of Berlin, who in 1914 would have been jubilant upon receiving an unexpected legacy of 1,000 marks, did not think an amount of 1,000,000,000 marks worth his attention in the fall of 1923.“— Ludwig von Mises, Interventionism, An Economic Analysis
Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. Three prosecutors explained how the government was entitled to launch pre-dawn raids and lock up individuals who criticized politicians, complained about immigrant crime waves, or otherwise crossed the latest revised boundary lines of acceptable thoughts.
In his Tuesday article on Trump’s bizarre and immoral Palestine plan, Tom DiLorenzo connects the plan to President Lincoln’s obsession with deporting the black population of the United States to a “colony” in Africa or Central America.
There is an interesting postscript to all this in the form of the Grant administration’s attempt to annex Santo Domingo, what is today known as the Dominican Republic.
Renowned Keynesian polymath, Woody Brock, in a presentation given at the ADC Forum in 2012, advocated for government investment in profitable private sector infrastructure projects in order to generate income with which to combat rising deficits. Basing his arguments on Arrow and Kurz’s Public Investment, the Rate of Return, and Optimal Fiscal Policy (1970), he argued the following:
Isaac Newton is certainly one of the most important scientists in human history—mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian. In the second half of his life, he discovered the world of economic sciences, focusing on monetary economics. His story is not very different from the one of Copernicus. Newton put himself at the service of his country, studying coinage, to successfully solve the economic crisis which was afflicting it.
Our friends at Grove City College have accomplished an incredible feat, digitizing their archive of Ludwig von Mises’s personal papers. In 1978, Hans Sennholz acquired this remarkable collection for the college from Margit von Mises and until this week, it was only accessible through a visit to Grove City.
In a bold and transformative move, President Donald Trump announced his administration’s intention to downsize the federal government by offering compensation to federal workers who voluntarily resign. This policy aims to enhance the efficiency of the American economy by reducing bureaucratic inertia and reallocating human capital to more productive sectors. While the proposal has sparked controversy, it represents a crucial step towards fostering a dynamic and innovative economy.
