If President Trump really wanted to help Israel he would inform Netanyahu this week that not another US dollar would be sent to prop up his government.
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Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/iran-everything-you-need-know-were-too-afraid-israel-lobby-ask
Now is the time to admit that easy-money policy and corporate bailouts—imposed in the name of increasing homeownership—has only made housing more unaffordable.
As the latest housing bubble pops, home sellers are asking for unreal prices for their homes, while buyers are waiting for the prices to fall. Bill Pulte, Trump's Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is demanding the Fed force down interest rates to restart the unsustainable boom.
As the Texas floodwaters receded, politicians like Chuck Schumer twisted facts about the tragedy to score a political win. Examining what went wrong to prevent such tragedies from happening again is the right thing to do. But that involves looking at the actual facts.
Has anyone besides Murray Rothbard made a compelling case for state-free anarchy? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon extols Libertarian Anarchy by Gerard Casey, which he says provides excellent arguments for doing away with the state.
Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political slavery and claims by distant masters to unlimited power.
The Declaration of Independence is about radical opposition to state power. The Declaration takes a stand against political vices like unity, loyalty, and centralized power.
June's job growth was hailed in the media as proof of a strong economy. Except there's a problem: fully half of these new jobs were government jobs.
President Trump cracked down on the latest version of the LA riots by calling in the National Guard. However, much of the violence that accompanied those riots came courtesy of government actors.
Twentieth and twenty-first century monetary history shows us how our government, step-by-step, removed the monetary gold standard and introduced their fiat paper currency dollar to fund their increasing political power.
Although President Trump has claimed that tariffs will ultimately raise our standard of living, they really are taxes on consumers. Furthermore, tariffs also deny consumers the choices they want to make.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/why-phrase-jewish-state-propaganda
Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans.
The Republican insistence on increasing military spending is the main reason Congress cannot cut taxes without increasing the debt, making cuts in domestic welfare programs, or both.
The American Revolution wasn’t a polite disagreement with Britain. It was a people-powered upheaval that shattered empires, inspired global revolutions, and rewrote the rules of liberty.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/israels-nuclear-arsenal-controversial-reality
Central planning thwarts Iran’s economy. Many Iranian government officials blame their nation’s economic demise on Western countries sanctions and not their policy choices.
Governments have so corrupted money that we forget that sound money, by providing both fungibility and privacy, has been a defense against overreaching governments. While sound money is in the interests of citizens, governments have managed to destroy it.
Modern historians depend heavily upon sweeping narratives and their take on the US War of Secession is no exception. Yet, the use of methodological individualism allows one to avoid sweeping judgments like claiming the Confederacy was founded upon belief in white supremacy.
