Following last week‘s air crash in Washington, the FAA is receiving extra scrutiny. The real problem with the FAA, however, is that it is a political entity, which means that political goals will determine its capital structure and hiring practices.
The foreign aid bureaucrats at the United Nations, heavily funded by US taxpayers, live lavishly at US taxpayer expense.
I have long been puzzled by the haste and of the conservative-interventionists’ desire for a showdown. Why do all of them implicitly believe that time is on the side of communism?
The media and political outcry that came when President Trump temporarily froze USAID and some domestic funding revealed how the political establishment uses the plight of the most vulnerable people to keep their rigged political system in place.
The Federal Reserve‘s reckless policies have created havoc in the housing markets, with the government and monetary authorities helping to create the apartment bubble, which is in the process of bursting. As usual, bad policies bring bad people into the markets.
California secession would not change the US into a laissez-faire paradise, but the positive change would be immense.
Elon Musk‘s latest comments on money make the same errors as we saw with Milton Friedman and the Monetarists. If Musk really wants to understand money, he needs to read Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises.
Mainstream economists make too much out of “knowledge.” First, the kind of knowledge one needs to be successful in an economy is not knowing things generally but having an understanding that is more than knowing mere facts. The entrepreneur‘s judgement is ultimately what matters.
Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the justices simply interpret the Constitution according to modern statist progressive viewpoints that fit their own progressive narratives.
No matter how the court rules on birthright citizenship (or anything else), it certainly won’t be the “last word” on the matter, and nothing is decided beyond the short term.
