Power & Market

I have long argued that Austrian economics should be developed not as an alternative to the current academic discipline of economics but as a replacement for it.

Donald Trump’s proposals to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal, and/or Canada represent another ridiculous betrayal of the “America First” ideology he ran on.

In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard conceptualizes “the defense of the rights of person and property” as the foundation of libertarian law.

Governments of developing countries attempt to thrust their country into prosperity through various statist measures, but their efforts are doomed because they do not understand economics.

American attempts to preserve its leadership status in the world will fail unless it enacts reforms which really are nothing more than behaving in a legal and honorable way.

There is a common misconception that the Constitution mandates that the US government grant citizenship to everyone born within the borders of the United States. 

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were tasked by President-elect Donald Trump to lead an effort to find and cut federal spending.

Ross Ulbricht was railroaded by a federal kangaroo court which imposed an absurdly excessive penalty. Today, Donald Trump pardoned Ulbricht. 

By sending Ukraine special equipment to combat emergencies and eliminate their consequences, Western leaders ignored the safety of their populations. 

The recent frenzy of pardons is an important reminder that there is no such thing as the so-called “rule of law” in the United States.