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Baby Alfie, the Latest Victim of Omnipotent Government

Big GovernmentHealthLegal System

Blog04/30/2018Ron Paul

Ever since Plato, supporters of big government have sought to put government in charge of the lives of children

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Being Right Isn't Enough

Education

Blog03/20/2018Jeff Deist

The only real cure for too much debt is an orderly process of liquidation. No bailouts. No subsidies. No taxpayer involvement.

Brexit Has Reached the Point of No Return

Decentralization and SecessionGlobal Economy

Blog02/10/2018Alasdair Macleod

In the absence of waning UK power in Brussels, the EU is pushing even worse policies than before, making a UK return at this point very unwise.

Before Roe v. Wade, Abortion Had Always Been a State and Local Matter

Decentralization and SecessionLegal SystemU.S. History

Blog01/24/2018Ryan McMaken

Prior to 1973, there were almost no federal laws on abortion, one way or the other. Even though abortion rates were quite high in the 19th century.

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Bob Dylan as Economic Prophet

Media and CultureU.S. Economy

Blog01/17/2018Mark Spitznagel

Change is the defining feature of our modern age. But you would never know it when surveying today’s financial market landscape.

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Birthday of a Bloodbath

SocialismWorld History

Blog11/24/2017Paul G. Kengor

As communism marks its centennial, we should remember it for what it did best: death.

Big Pharma Makes Drugs that Please Regulators, Not Customers

Bureaucracy and RegulationHealth

Blog10/27/2017Mark Thornton

In a free market, consumers hold the power to punish producers for pushing dangerous products. But today, the FDA has short-circuited that market.

Bernie Sanders's "Medicare for All" is Good for None

Bureaucracy and RegulationHealthTaxes and Spending

Blog10/02/2017Richard Kocur

Sanders’s plan would artificially set provider fees well below market levels — and would force physicians and hospitals out of business.

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The Problem with "Just Do What the Cops Say and You Won't Get Hurt"

Ryan McMaken

Apologists for police abuse often claim that if a citizen complies with police orders and does what he's told, then he won't get hurt. The evidence says otherwise.

Who's to Blame for Normalizing One-Man Rule?

Robert Fellner

Unfortunately, the corporate press and public health officials have determined that unilateral rule by executive decree, unimpeded by any conception of individual freedom, is necessary to respond to the coronavirus.

The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America

Ryan McMaken

Free market advocates long ago figured out that the monied classes of bankers and Wall Street operatives were exploiting the "little people" to prop up the fortunes of what is now the billionaire class. The scam is alive and well today.

Biden's Amtrak Infrastructure Scam

William L. Anderson

Profit-seeking entrepreneurs move factors of production to their highest and most economical uses. Amtrak, on the other hand, is diverting useful factors of production from higher use values to lower-valued uses. To put it another way, Amtrak is destroying wealth.

America’s "Great Men" and the Constitutional Convention

Murray N. Rothbard

The nationalists in favor of a new constitution in 1787 sent their richest, most schooled, and most "distinguished" men. Fortunately for them, ceteris paribus, the more distinguished any given gathering, the more statist and reactionary it will likely be.

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Joseph T. Salerno

Joseph Salerno is academic vice president of the Mises Institute, professor emeritus of economics at Pace University...