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What Biden/Harris Will Do

Cronyism and CorporatismTaxes and SpendingU.S. History

Blog2 hours agoJeff Deist

Will Biden/Harris be a transformative administration?

Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy

Decentralization and SecessionU.S. History

Blog2 hours agoRyan McMaken

Expect opponents of secession and decentralization to start claiming that neither option is acceptable because any big change to the status quo could endanger American "strength" in foreign policy. Don't listen to them.

Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It

War and Foreign Policy

Blog2 hours agoRyan McMaken

The power to incinerate a billion or more human beings over morning coffee remains in the power of the president. This morning, Biden supporters on Twitter were ecstatic over the video of the nuclear launch equipment being handed over to Biden.

Time Preference, Interest Rates, and Stagflation

Money and Banks

Blog3 hours agoFrank Shostak

As a result of past reckless fiscal and monetary policies the pool of real wealth could be declining. If so, stagflation will result.

Why Governments Want More Centralization—and Less Federalism

Decentralization and SecessionU.S. History

Blog8 hours agoGary Galles

America’s founders did not envision the federal government as the domineering senior partner in almost everything. What was once best described as “sovereign States, united solely for specified joint purposes” has been largely eviscerated.

Unintended Consequences: Some Problems with National Income Accounting

Value and Exchange

Blog9 hours agoDavid Howden

It´s not that we need to rid ourselves of the baggage of macro-statistics completely. Rather, we need to 1) critically assess whether they are appropriate, if so, 2) for what role, and finally 3) whether they are consistent as a tool we can use to tell the story we want.

The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence

War and Foreign Policy

Blog9 hours agoRon Paul

It’s hard to be optimistic about a Biden Administration with so many hyper-interventionist Obama retreads. Get ready for new wars and "regime change" operations.

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Let's Abolish Those Presidential Medals of Freedom

U.S. History

Blog01/19/2021James Bovard

Never trust a president's judgment when it comes to what constitutes freedom. The absurd presidential record on Medals of Freedom illustrates this well.

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Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It

Ryan McMaken

The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence

Ron Paul

It’s hard to be optimistic about a Biden Administration with so many hyper-interventionist Obama retreads. Get ready for new wars and "regime change" operations.

Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy

Ryan McMaken

Although the ideal is the creation of truly independent states through secession, progress in the near term requires only that Americans demand independence from Washington on all domestic policy, even if Washington continues to control foreign policy.