Politics

On January 24, 2025, President Donald Trump

The economy is stagnating, regulation has restrained the market from creating the growth that thrusts society onward, yet the government is asking the regulators how to create growth. You’d be better asking the axeman how best to survive with no head!

As the Trump administration makes real cuts to federal programs, suddenly the opponents of “waste, fraud, and abuse” are discovering that Trump and Elon Musk are serious about slashing spending. Not surprisingly, the Usual Suspects don't like the cuts.

Hans Hoppe recently criticized Argentina‘s President Javier Milei for not closing the country‘s inflationary central bank. In response, Milei claimed that doing so would result in hyperinflation. Given the central bank prints lots of pesos, shutting it obviously would decrease inflation.

Following last week‘s air crash in Washington, the FAA is receiving extra scrutiny. The real problem with the FAA, however, is that it is a political entity, which means that political goals will determine its capital structure and hiring practices.

The media and political outcry that came when President Trump temporarily froze USAID and some domestic funding revealed how the political establishment uses the plight of the most vulnerable people to keep their rigged political system in place.

"Where do you put him in the moral scale? It seems to me you put Mr. Nixon pretty close to the bottom."

"The theory of historians... is that anybody who's really radical is a nut."

"Given this historic opportunity, it seems to me we have a moral obligation not to blow it, if we can help it."

California secession would not change the US into a laissez-faire paradise, but the positive change would be immense.