Protectionism Doesn’t Decrease “Food Insecurity”; It Increases It
From Athens to Vienna: Understanding a System of Ethics
Sebag and Natural Money
Marx, Class Conflict, and the Ideological Fallacy
Connecticut’s Housing Shortage Is Rooted in Government Policies
The Presumption of Innocence Is under Attack
Why Argentina Needs a 100%-Reserves Banking System
There have been criticisms against Javier Milei´s plan to install a 100% reserve banking system in Argentina. One of the fears is that in a 100% reserve banking system there would be price deflation which would be detrimental to the economy. I have written about the myth that falling prices are to be fought against with inflation of the money supply in my book “In Defense of Deflation” which has recently been recommended by Javier Milei on X.
The State of Israel Abandons Law and Morality in Its War on Gaza
Over and above industrial-scale mass murder of individual people—Israel is engaged in the eradication of Gazans as a People.
Inarguably, to condemn Israel’s industrial-scale campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza ought to be ethically straightforward. Basic really.
That Israel is committing the “the crime of all crimes” against the Palestinians of Gaza is not within the realm of opinion.
That the Global North is standing stock-still in the face of this well-documented holocaust is not in dispute.
The Senate Calls Out-of-Control Spending a National Security Threat, Keeps Spending Anyway
Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over 34 trillion dollars (and growing) national debt threatens national security. A few days later, a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted for a 1.2 trillion dollars spending bill. In addition to the usual increases in war and welfare spending, the bill funds gender transitioning for minors without parental consent and red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s firearms without due process.
