What a week! While the Trump administration has several issues for concern—the role of the Fed and tariffs, for example—there are some wins for liberty: Ross Ulbricht released, pardons for J6 offenders, declassified files, the TikTok ban postponed, exiting the Paris Climate accord and WHO.
The recent back-and-forth on banning TikTok because it‘s said to be a “Chinese company” risks the US ironically becoming even more like China.
There is always the choice between the market principle and the hegemonic principle. There is no third way or middle ground between the two, often presented as a “mixed economy.”
It‘s obvious that a new influx of money will not immediately bring about changes in enough prices to significantly alter a price index. Even so, there are immediate effects of the new money.
While TV commentators are wagging their fingers at the fossil fuel industry, Taylor Sheridan has provided a different point of view with “Landman.”
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.
