Politics

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about the growing populist backlash to Flock cameras and the AI-powered security state.

Betz highlights how rapid demographic shifts and elite-driven mass migration have created an unresolvable three-way tension between native populations, “post-national” ruling elites, and recent arrivals.

The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith.

The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits.

The island nation of Jamaica has the potential to be an economic powerhouse, but, instead, the government wishes to pursue a self-defeating policy of demanding “reparations” from Great Britain and other western nations.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits.

Ludwig von Mises favored liberalism, which was based upon the equality of each person before the law. Today, elites are seeking a regime in which the law is written and enforced to favor one group over another.

Murray Rothbard wrote many years ago that government regulation, ostensibly created to protect consumers, actually protects incumbent producers from competition. Decades later, nothing has changed.

Everyone loves to have time off, but what happens when governments force people not to work against their will?