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The government can't return the SS money it stole in the past. It's impossible. That money's gone. Taxing today's workers to "pay back" pensioners is just creating a new group of tax victims. 

The president's SOTU speech has become an annual presentation of a new set of White House lies. But official Washington believes it is worse to publicly boo false statements than to make them.

Understanding immigration is to understand tradeoffs. One key to successful immigration is the strength of America's institutions.

The Communist Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order. Unfortunately, the idea didn't die with Marx. 

China has created a crackdown cycle that is hurting the entrepreneurial spirit.

Why decentralize? One: small polities allow for more choice and opportunities for exit. Two: small is better for minorities when democracy fails. Three: small polities limit the power of aggressors.

Contrary to our elite media and political classes, the Chinese weather balloon was no threat to our well-being. However, the government's response to it made this a more dangerous world.

While President Joe Biden's White House continues to give happy talk about the economy, some major economic storm clouds are brewing. The future does not look good.

The fact the money supply is actually shrinking serves as just one more indicator that the so-called soft landing promised by the Federal Reserve is unlikely to be a reality. 

Murray N. Rothbard slices his way through ten of the most common value-based calumnies against the market economy. An excerpt  from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market.