The federal government has been meddling in Western lands since the beginning. Early settlers were happy to have the feds on their side, but a government strong enough to give you land is strong enough to take it away.
Bernie Sanders received some hefty backlash and ridicule on Twitter for decrying the fact that student loan rates are higher than home refinance rates.
Politicians can often be found saying that it would be bad to end a government program because it would unfairly punish those who benefit from the program. But what about those who are punished and disadvantaged by the unjust program in the first place?
Most critiques of the market is pure assertion.
In a superb talk given on February 27, 1984, at an early Mises Institute event in New York City, Margit von Mises discusses the process by which she came to write the memoir of her late husband, as well as his impact on the world.
This is an excellent short video explaining the source and nature of Cultural Marxist movements like political correctness, modern feminism, pansexualism, multiculturalism, "whiteness studies," etc.
Many people know that the Venezuelan economy is subject to byzantine price controls and other regulations. But on top of it all is a highly complex, bureaucratic, and damaging system of government-controlled monetary exchange rates.
. . . as presented in four entertaining slides.
