Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a health crusade under the banner “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA). Yet his recent pronouncements ring disturbingly like: “I’m the government, and I’m here to help.” Kennedy’s agenda for national well-being—much of which has already been supported via executive order—betrays a proclivity for top-down intervention rather than genuine reform.
On April 28, 2025, the Spanish population experienced an unprecedented event. The country’s electricity supply was cut off, resulting in a blackout. But to understand what really happened, the context of the situation must be evaluated.
To Marxists, everything is inherent and inevitable. Human beings are inherently constrained to act as they do by their prevailing material conditions, leading inevitably to class conflicts. They view human beings as captive to the ideology of their class. Karl Marx argued that, owing to inherent class conflict, individuals cannot view problems objectively—or even individually or idiosyncratically—because each individual is necessarily compelled to view the world through the lens of his class.
From atop the flawed foundation of the Labor Theory of Value, Karl Marx made a series of predictions about capitalism that time has proven incorrect. Among these are the immiseration of the masses due to capital accumulation, chronic overproduction, capitalist-driven imperialism, and the inevitable rise of monopolies.
The U.S. Federal Reserve just pulled off something stealthy — over four days last week, without fanfare, the Fed vacuumed up $43.6 billion in U.S. Treasurys.
Most financial commentators are of the view that increases in the stock market translate to an increase in economic growth. The reason is because the increase in stock prices lifts consumer and business optimism, which, in turn, boosts consumer and business demand for goods and services. This, in turn, strengthens the economy. But is it valid to hold that what drives the economy is the demand for goods and services?
Nothing brings Republicans and Democrats together like using simplistic, heavy-handed government regulations to attempt to solve complex problems. Unfortunately, the promise of easy solutions blinds policymakers to much more effective alternatives.
Practically every student of Austrian economics is familiar, at least in passing, with the moment when Keynes said the proverbial quiet part out loud in the foreword to the German edition of his General Theory. One translation of that text reads,
