Big Government

The Southern Reconstruction, while portrayed by progressives as virtuous northerners trying to rebuild the South, was actually an attempt to use state power to direct social and economic life there. 

President Trump has announced his intentions for the government to set up a sovereign wealth fund. However popular the idea might be, it runs headlong into the realities of economic calculation and would soon deteriorate another government slush fund.

In a recent New York Times column, Dartmouth professor Brooke Harrington claimed that Trump is undoing trust in our institutions while Franklin Roosevelt restored it. Clearly, Harrington doesn‘t know much about FDR—or Trump.

"The government has been throwing money at higher education, and the response has been that a lot more people are going to college that otherwise may have found other pathways."

High inflation spurred Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris last November. The economy was the top issue for most voters, and inflation was the top economic issue. As Biden’s partner in economic crime, Harris could not escape the blame for the torpedoing of the dollar’s value.

President Trump is levying high tariffs without consent of Congress, despite the fact that the US Constitution gives only Congress the power to set tax rates. It is time for Congress to stop redelegating its lawfully-delegated powers.

The Fed is losing record amounts of money, but in the magical world of money-printing, it‘s not a problem for the Fed. It‘s just a problem for the taxpayers.

In a post-Cold War world, there is an opportunity to find useful insights among even the New Right that Rothbard loathed. James Burnham‘s The Managerial Revolution produced important points about the relationship of government and business.

Thus far, DOGE has introduced the American public to countless examples of wasteful spending. Unsurprisingly, the benefactors of the system see this as a great injustice.

Either tariffs raise revenue from foreign imports or make imports expensive enough to protect domestic producers, not both. There is nothing magical about tariffs. They are taxes and they are paid by you.