Rent control is all the rage with progressives, with several states and localities trying to impose it. However, when people have their property effectively—and legally—stolen, there are long-term consequences.
As geopolitical tensions rise, the Chinese political leadership tells the US government to desist pushing its "color revolutions."
Even though Barbados and Jamaica had more similarities than differences when they became independent of Great Britain, Barbados developed its economy much more quickly.
Socialists like Bernie Sanders and the editors of Jacobin have decried the possible US government debt default. Marx and Lenin would have vociferously disagreed.
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation supposedly protects people from government data abuse. In reality, it empowers governments.
While the faux debt ceiling drama rages in Washington, DC, governments worldwide are defaulting on their debt via inflation.
South Africa is suffering from rolling blackouts and other power outages. These could be avoided if the government would permit competition in electricity markets.
The latest round of wildfires in Canada has brought out the usual statist demands that we ban fossil fuels, but in the real world fossil fuels protect people from climate-related disasters.
New York Times columnist David French likes to think of himself as an honest broker. In reality, his "Never Trump" mentality leads him to overlook government lawbreaking.
Modern mainstream neoclassical economics is constructed on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard challenged that worldview on many fronts.
