Big Government

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Mitch Nemeth

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.

Tate Fegley

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.

Lipton Matthews

In a bold and transformative move, President Donald Trump announced his administration’s intention to downsize the federal government by offering compensation to federal workers who voluntarily resign.

Lukas Organ

The Technocracy Movement was an offshoot of progressivism, and adherents believed that science and technology were the keys to creating a new Utopia. Not surprisingly, this “Utopia” was anti-individual freedom.

Murray N. Rothbard

As the Trump administration cuts thousands of federal jobs, it‘s good to remember that the public sector‘s “services” provide no actual net value to the “national product.”

Gyeonghoon Kim

Like their American counterparts, libertarians in South Korea allied themselves with the conservative political factions and now are paying a price in the face of a political meltdown. As Murray Rothbard noted, it is better to go with principles of liberty than caving in to statists.

Lipton Matthews

Jamaica is emerging as a rising economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, widely regarded as an International Monetary Fund (IMF) success story.

Mark Thornton

The piggy bank originated about 500 years ago at the dawn of capitalism, when ordinary people started to possess silver coins. This 500-year tradition seems to be yet another “minor” detail of life that has been killed by a world dominated by fiat paper money.

Mark Thornton

Beef prices are rising again because of government intervention in the monetary system and in regulation of the beef industry. As American beef consumption falls, the entire industry is in trouble.