Power & Market

It’s going to take a lot more than some trimming around the edges to change the federal government’s current trajectory into continued $2-trillion-plus annual deficits.

When wars can be started by presidents with no authority granted by Congress, the results can be the kinds of endless military engagements with ever-shifting, unachievable objectives such as we’ve seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Jamaica has emerged as a prime destination for investment under the leadership of Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The country has fostered a business-friendly environment.

Students and general readers will find in this 201-page book a systematic—yet concise and focused—presentation of the main topics in economic analysis from the perspective of the Austrian School.

Was Russia provoked into the war in Ukraine? Certainly. However, gaslighting was involved as well.

It was the absence of income taxation and a hardly noticeable regulatory regime that were the most important policy issues related to post-Civil War growth, along with the existence of the gold standard (in various forms).

It is not just the future generation who bears the burden of increased government debt, but the current generation who pay the interest to the banks and corporations through higher taxes and higher price inflation.

The advocates for war always rely on lies and dismissing any debate. When the lies are pointed out, those interested in the truth are attacked as conspirators with the enemy. Debate is beneath the foreign policy “experts,” perhaps because they know their ideas aren’t defensible.

If “consent” is said to be meaningless due to its supposed tampering by capitalist forces, the same logic could be applied to “rebellion,” with the only difference being that it now comes from the left.

Mises said, “The continued existence of society depends upon private property.” Private property is essential for exchange, economic calculation, and many more pillars of human civilization.