Power & Market

I was asked in an interview the other day if I thought Nevadans had a libertarian attitude.

It is unimaginably cruel to demand that Ukraine keep fighting our proxy war down to the last Ukrainian.

At 3 percent inflation over an 80-year lifetime, prices will multiply by a factor of more than 10. A dollar will become nine cents, but we would be told that “inflation is stable.”

A vacancy tax is a charge imposed on property owners who leave residential or commercial properties unoccupied for a specified duration. As usual, a statist violation of property rights.

No one can legitimately create a monopoly on ideas. The problems of freedom are solved with more freedom and worsened with less.

Often “reasoning” commits to a conclusion, then finds argumentation to justify it.

Dr. Hülsmann offers his concluding thoughts on his debate with Philipp Bagus regarding the monetary consequences of closing the central bank of Argentina. 

The government failed to govern, but not by mistake, it was fully incentivized to do so.

Owners are not only prohibited from producing the wine of their choice but also from deciding the volume they produce, the price at which they can sell their products, the way they store and vinify according to protocols, and the list goes on.

Any political figure, celebrity, professor, social or climate activist, or anyone else who calls for elimination or inhibition of this system—and the spillovers it brings—cannot claim that he or she is a friend to civilized society.