Big Government

In a true free market economy, credentials would not matter, and certainly not to the extent that they matter today. Credentialism, unfortunately, is a product of government interventionism.

Trump's now-infamous “Big, Beautiful Bill” has become the classic bait-and-switch, in which the president promises fiscal responsibility as a candidate but delivers profligacy when he reaches the White House.

With US Government bonds being downgraded, another sign that Washington's borrowing and spending is out of control, not that anyone in power is listening. Think of the downgrade as a canary in a coal mine.

The American Revolution was fought to free American colonists from an overbearing British government. Yet, only a few years after independence, Americans had created a constitutional government that would wield much power than anything the British had.

Modern macroeconomic theory claims that government spending, taxation, and monetary creation is essential for economic growth. Austrian Economists, however, note that government stifles the economy.

Critics of the Free State Project should direct animosity, not at those moving to their state, but to the other 49 states for failing to be freer. The Free State Project migrants are not moving to New Hampshire to exert coercion on the existing population, but to live under less coercion.

Our author went to St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, expecting a vacation in paradise. Unfortunately, thanks to the USVI government‘s laws “protecting” the taxi industry, he had to spend a tidy sum of money just getting around.

On this episode of Power and Market, the group discusses the fallout from Musk's fight with Trump, recent reporting on Palantir contracts, and how the courts are not interested in protecting rights.

Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the history behind the myth of "Fed independence." The Fed has never been politically independent of the US government, and it has enthusiastically helped fund the US government both in wartime and in peacetime. 

The so-called White House “coverup” of former President Joe Biden‘s dementia was really a coverup by the legacy media, which worked with White House officials to ensure Americans would not know the truth.