Big Government

The repeated failure of prohibition may be just the catalyst that Austrian economics needs to gain traction with the American public.

It's a paradox: never before has a government in human history assumed unto itself the power to regulate the minutiae of daily life as much as this one.  At the same time the United States is overall the wealthiest society in the history of the world.

A universal basic income can easily be weaponized as a tool to punish "antisocial" behavior such as holding "unacceptable" political views or otherwise engaging in what the state doesn't like.

The totalitarian ethos of the twentieth century, whether in the “mixed” version of the Hindenburg Program or the Bolshevik version of Lenin and Stalin, emerges from the will of individuals who propose to control their fellows.

"Truth has a power that cannot be touched by physical force. It is impossible to shoot a truth."

Our monetary system, combined with interventionist state policies, causes mass overconsumption, the destruction of wealth, capital consumption, and the destruction of nature. 

The American Left used to argue that we needed higher taxes on the rich so they would "pay their fair share." Nowadays, they are arguing that billionaires shouldn't exist at all.

The budgetary restraints that the eurozone placed on member states are now in the crosshairs of ECB President Christine Lagarde. 

Since 1975, Chile’s per capita income has increased fourfold, making it Latin America’s most prosperous country today.

In his new book Google Archipelago, Rectenwald asserts the Google Archipelago re-upping of Marx is not only practically Marxist, but conceptually and structurally so.