The Trouble with the Constitution and the “Social Contract”
If my repeated insistence that I do not consent is insufficient to indicate my lack of consent, then what kind of crazy moral system is this?
If my repeated insistence that I do not consent is insufficient to indicate my lack of consent, then what kind of crazy moral system is this?
Today's pundits have created the myth that Ellsberg was a "good" leaker and Assange et al. are "bad" leakers. It's a myth designed to portray modern-day heroic whistleblowers as "traitors."
The latest rage in macroceonomics is modern monetary theory, whose adherents invariably resort to the motte-and-bailey fallacy. Advocating inflation is never a good idea.
Some conservatives are upset because the new best-selling beer is owned by the same company that owns the beleaguered Bud Lite. Actually, they should have no problem with that.
"The first condition for the maximization of economic efficiency is the liberation of civil society with respect to the state. . . . The expansion of capitalism owes its origins and raison d’être to political anarchy."
Rent seeking is a popular term used in economics to describe the behavior of firms trying to gain something from the government. Time to expand the definition.
It's all in spite of enormous social spending, more than two trillion euros of stimulus, and the increase in population. Resorting to the old “it could have been worse” argument makes no sense.
The government's latest "weapon" against carbon dioxide emissions is a pipeline that will carry the emissions across states and deep underground. In other words, another Washington boondoggle.
Our political and cultural elites have gaslighted us on inflation for years. To learn the truth, read the Austrians.
With growth now falling near or below negative 10 percent for the second month in a row, money-supply contraction is the largest we've seen since the Great Depression.