With the Houthis in Yemen firing on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the US is contemplating yet another Middle East conflict. As we see again, aggression leads to more aggression.
While Ludwig von Mises and Karl Popper disagreed on methodology, but Brian J. Gladish believes that perhaps their viewpoints were not as divergent as their followers suggest.
Much government regulation — and especially what we saw during the covid era — is downright illogical and produces harmful results. Perhaps some simple logic is in order.
All of us have experienced government road closures and the traffic and safety nightmares they create. Private roads may be the answer to solving the problem.
If we say secession in the name of national liberation is bad, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire or two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.
After peace came in 1783, the new republic faced a twofold economic adjustment: to peacetime from the artificial production and trade patterns during the war, and to a far different trading picture than had existed before the war.
