The Great Burt Blumert
February 11 would have been the 96th birthday of Burt Blumert, one of my greatest friends and a great champion of Rothbardian libertarianism.
Power & Market
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The Fed Has Its Eyes on Stablecoin
With Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) banned by executive order, the Fed may have more incentive to explore alternatives in the cryptocurrency market.
Populism and Classical Liberalism: Is There an Intersection?
The Effect of Westward Expansion on US Citizenship
Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state government as intermediary.
German “Democracy”: The Regime Bans Political Parties It Doesn’t Like
In Germany, as elsewhere, “democracy” means whatever the ruling class says it means. Often, that means banning dissident political parties.
The Political Crisis in South Korea and the Failure of Beltway Libertarians
Like their American counterparts, libertarians in South Korea allied themselves with the conservative political factions and now are paying a price in the face of a political meltdown. As Murray Rothbard noted, it is better to go with principles of liberty than caving in to statists.
Is the US Headed for Breakup (in the Long Run)?
Tom Woods and I talk about the need to look beyond the Trump administration to plan for a realistic ideological and political plan moving forward.
American Satisfaction
Americans are far more satisfied with the way things are going in their own life than with the US in general.
Countries Don’t Go Broke. Governments Do.
It is not countries, but governments, which overborrow and go broke. The debtor is the government. The government is quite distinct from the country.
Jamaica’s Economic Renaissance: Andrew Holness and the Path to a Free Market Revolution
Jamaica is emerging as a rising economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, widely regarded as an International Monetary Fund (IMF) success story.
