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Global Rate Hikes Hit the Wall of Debt Maturity

U.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog12/16/2022

For decades, central banks have encouraged ever larger mountains of debt. But now the debtors face big problems as interest rates rise. Families and small business will pay the price.  

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Decentralization, Freedom, and Peace Are the Pillars of a Free Society

Decentralization and SecessionU.S. HistoryWorld History

Blog12/15/2022

As the history of large states shows very well, choosing security without freedom leads to losing both rights and peace.

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Real Wage Growth Falls for the Twentieth Month as Biden Celebrates 7 Percent Inflation

U.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog12/13/2022

It's odd for Joe Biden to celebrate an inflation report that still has price inflation growth over 7 percent, especially when real wages are falling and a recession looks more likely every hour. 

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The Jobs "Boom" Isn't So Hot When We Remember Nearly Six Million Men Are Missing from the Workforce

U.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog12/08/2022

There appears to be a six-million-man gap between the number of men in the prime age group—age 25–54—and the number of those men actually in the workforce.

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The Student Murders in Idaho Highlight the Unimpressive Police Record on Violent Crime

U.S. History

Blog12/07/2022

Like the police in similar communities, the Moscow, Idaho Police have long focused on petty drug offenses while more serious violent crime and property crime receives far less attention.

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As the Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Congress Wants to Spend Even More on "Defense"

Taxes and SpendingU.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog12/06/2022

America's military technocrats (a.k.a. "generals") specialize in losing wars and also losing your money. Naturally, Congress wants to give them even more taxpayer cash.

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Born on the Tenth of January

LibertarianismU.S. History

Blog12/06/2022

Thomas Paine, whose fiery essay "Common Sense" made a case for the American Revolution, is a much-neglected American founder.

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"Classical Liberalism" Will Never Satisfy the Left

StrategyU.S. EconomyU.S. HistoryPolitical Theory

Blog12/05/2022

Mises and Hayek used "classical liberal” to distinguish themselves from the Left. Today the term is used primarily to appease the Left.

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January 6 Trials Remind Us Why We Must Abolish Seditious Conspiracy Laws

U.S. History

Blog12/03/2022

The January 6 trials remind us violence against a person or property should be prosecuted as exactly that, and not as a special category of crime against the regime.

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The Fed Is Not "a Good Idea that Became Corrupt": It Always Was Corrupt

The FedProgressivismU.S. History

Blog12/01/2022

It is easy to think of the Fed as a good institution that simply lost its way. In truth, it was a bad idea and a bad institution from its beginning.

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