With a Biden Win, The War Party Will Be Back in Full Force
“What is the one thing that brings Republicans and Democrats together?” Rand Paul asked reporters. “War—they love it."
“What is the one thing that brings Republicans and Democrats together?” Rand Paul asked reporters. “War—they love it."
A single vote on the Fed's policymaking committees wouldn't make any real difference. On the other hand, the Fed will brook no dissent from the official media and academic narrative.
"While many academics in the developing world view economics as a zero-sum game, I never entertained the argument that wealth is necessarily due to exploitation."
The fact that prices are rising in a pandemic crisis is not a sign of success. It is evidence of central bankers' miserable failure and hurts every consumer who has seen revenues collapse by 10 or 20 percent.
In this outstanding study, Stephen Wertheim shows that both views that dominate American foreign policy are wrong. In doing so, he vindicates for our time the merits of a noninterventionist foreign policy.
Remember savings bonds? They were popular before the central bank made sure that safe, low-interest investments became a thing of the past.
GDP fails to account for many measures of quality of life, such as personal safety, the local climate, leisure time, and more.
It makes sense that individual ethics can vary within a natural law framework: the nonaggression principle isn't so much a rule to be applied as a norm to be followed. It's the foundation that makes life among other people possible.
Useful goods and services, and the productive resources needed to create useful goods and services, are wealth. Money is not wealth, and creating more money without first creating wealth is a big problem.
It should be self-evident that a just and moral political regime can only exist in the long term if a sufficiently large number of people actually believe in it.