The Prospects of War
Mark examines the increasing prospects of global warfare and the catastrophic results.
Mark examines the increasing prospects of global warfare and the catastrophic results.
As Murray Rothbard has noted, there is an important distinction between nation and state. The former is a voluntary association of people while the latter is coercive and predatory. Progressives, of course, claim the opposite.
Many of the high-flying businesses that received massive publicity turned out to be the creation of a bubble economy. Not all businesses are flashes in a pan; many of them continue to serve as the backbone of our economy.
At best, a CBDC is surveillance masquerading as currency. The central bank would have precise information of your currency usage, savings, borrowing, and more.
"Politically there is nothing more advantageous for a government than an attack on property rights, for it is always an easy matter to incite the masses against the owners of land and capital."
Collectivism isn't a dangerous ideology just because of bad economics. It also is dangerous because its practitioners realize the only way to implement it is through outright violence, and they have no qualms about employing it to get their way.
Many economic think tanks espouse that national defense spending benefits Americans at large. It doesn’t. The notion that military spending "bolsters" the economy is yet another Keynesian fable.
According to John Kekes, “reclaiming” the political center means coming to an understanding that rights are not natural but are simple social conventions.
Ryan, Tho, and Connor O'Keeffe talk about how the US government has punished Julian Assange for revealing American war crimes and corruption.
When capital cannot move to labor, labor will move to capital, and so protectionism acts as an impetus to greater migration. The answer is free trade.