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Finance Discovers Sting: "How Fragile We Are"

Financial MarketsMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyInterventionism

Blog05/11/2023

Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.

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Progressives Want to Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs but Need the Wealth They Create

Big GovernmentMedia and CultureProgressivismSocialismEntrepreneurship

Blog05/11/2023

Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.

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Rothbard’s Button Doesn’t Exist, but It Needs to Be Invented

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomEuropePrice ControlsWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

Blog05/10/2023

In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.

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NATO's Great New Idea: "Let’s Start a War with China!"

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

Blog05/10/2023

Last week NATO announced that it will open its first-ever Asia office in Japan. What next, NATO membership for Taiwan?

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Is There an Optimum Growth Rate of Money?

InflationMonetary PolicyInterventionismMonetary TheoryMoney and Banking

Blog05/10/2023

Monetarists believe there is an optimum growth rate of money. However, a fiat money system itself is unstable, so there is no optimum growth rate.

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Socialism, Minority Groups, and Personal Liberties

Media and CultureProgressivismProperty RightsSocialism

Blog05/09/2023

People from socially and economically marginized groups in the USA tend to support socialism. Yet socialists have a long and bloody history of suppressing these very groups.

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The New Immigration Bill Is a Trojan Horse for E-Verify and Is a Threat to All Americans

Bureaucracy and RegulationLabor and WagesU.S. History

Blog05/09/2023

A new bill being sold as an "immigration control" measure is really a vast expansion of the federal regulatory and surveillance state known as "E-Verify."  The potential for abuse is enormous. 

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Did Tucker's Last Major Guest Lead to His Firing?

AntipoliticsDemocracyMedia and CulturePoliticsThe Police State

Blog05/09/2023

Tucker Carlson has rankled the ruling elites for many years. But was his interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. a bridge too far?

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