The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 to protect the privacy of patient health information. Its privacy rule restricts access to a patient’s medical records to authorized individuals and limits how information can be shared without patient consent.
Murray Rothbard said that economics, law, and history are the most susceptible to propaganda. It is astonishing how historical narratives become established in real time.
Its intent may be to sabotage whatever peace deal trump might have pursued. But US taxpayers will pay either way.
Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State (MES) is one of the two greatest books on free market economics of the twentieth century. The other, of course, is Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action.
Critics decried the “retirement” of the previous 17-member ACIP, fearing the committee would make new vaccine recommendations not favored by Big Pharma.
It could be that deporting private sector workers isn’t quite as popular as deporting violent criminals on the dole.
I was in Big Pink once. For some idiotic training session when I worked for the anchor tenant. My new boss had socialist leanings and my libertarian view was something he just couldn’t comprehend. I would soon be hired away and our discussions ended.
Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the open. It was only a matter of time.
On the campaign trail, Musk provided much energy and helped ramp up enthusiasm for Donald Trump. His support for Trump made him a lightning rod for Trump-haters and he saw his personal wealth take a hit for his troubles.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest price inflation data, CPI inflation in May rose for the second month in a row.
The year-over-year change in the CPI rose by 2.4 percent in May, slightly accelerating over April’s year-over-year increase of 2.3 percent. The month-over-month change (seasonally-adjusted) was positive again in May, rising 0.1 percent, although May’s increase, with the exception of March this year, was the smallest month-over-month increase since mid-2024.
