Big Government

With the AI panic in full swing, the UN claims it wants to step into regulating this new technology. However, the UN is the last organization we would want to regulate anything.

The infamous Housing Bubble collapsed 18 years ago, and our economy has never truly recovered from it. Instead, the government became even more financially irresponsible.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute talks with Lew Rockwell about his book Against the State. 

From new wars to vaccine mandates, we're told to trust the government because the government supposedly has special knowledge inaccessible to mere ordinary citizens. This is just a form of government propaganda.

Brazilian politicians are trying to change Brazil’s labor laws to get rid of the six-day workweek, ostensibly to make life better for workers. In the end, it will create even more “informal” markets in labor while limiting legal work opportunities.

The temptation to think of China as an economic juggernaut needs a reality check. While China’s government-dominated economy has many impressive building projects, there are underlying malinvestments that the government continues to subsidize, leading to future problems.

The temptation to think of China as an economic juggernaut needs a reality check. While China’s government-dominated economy has many impressive building projects, there are underlying malinvestments that the government continues to subsidize, leading to future problems.

More than 200 years ago, Daniel Webster argued eloquently against a military draft in the US. A half-century later, the US had instituted a draft and then did it again in 1917. The state owns your life and squanders it in wars built on lies.

The only way to fund Social Security is with current tax dollars, inflicted on current workers and families. There is no pot of money somewhere that current retirees "paid into."

Ryan McMaken welcomes Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex Pollock, a longtime expert on real estate finance, for a discussion on how Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Reserve have created a socialist housing market in America. But it's socialism for the rich, and the system has made housing much more expensive for ordinary people.