To the rest of the world, the United States has a gun problem. Mass shootings, especially inside of schools, are national tragedies in the USA. When a non-American asks the question “Why a private citizen needs an ‘assault rifle’?" the pro-gun response is rarely...
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Not a ‘Soft Landing,’ But a Crash
by Daniel Lacalle | Jun 20, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
After more than a decade of chained stimulus packages and extremely low rates, with trillions of dollars of monetary stimulus fueling elevated asset valuations and incentivizing an enormous leveraged bet on risk, the idea of a controlled explosion or a “soft landing”...
TGIF: Free Exchange Is Win-Win
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 17, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
With the possible exception of the political class and its cronies, most of us would be healthier, wealthier, happier, and freer if the public knew how to engage in "the economic way of thinking." The late Paul Heyne, who wrote a popular textbook by that name (now in...
‘ESG,’ the Threat to Liberty You Haven’t Heard Of
by Tommy Salmons | Jun 16, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
In March of 2020 COVID-19 spread to the shores of the United States, introducing a medical threat that had all the signs of devastating families from sea to shining sea. But in the shadows, slipping in under the veil of a potentially deadly pandemic, another threat...
The Fed’s Rate Hike Is a Shot in the Dark
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 16, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced an increase of 75 basis points to the target federal funds rate, raising the rate to 1.75% from 1%. June’s meeting today was the third meeting this year at which the FOMC has raised rates....
Libertarian Solutions to Paleoconservative Problems
by David Brady | Jun 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump entered the political stage as a rejection of all that we have known. His rhetoric was that of America no longer being great, and a promise to bring America back to its roots. He promised to “Make America Great Again.” He created a movement around this...
No Charges for Cop Who Ran Over and Killed Wounded, 911 Caller
by Matt Agorist | Jun 15, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A year ago, on June 13, 2021, 42-year-old Eric Cole called 911 for help, like he was supposed to do, after he was shot in the arm. However, police were the first to show up on the scene and help was the last thing Cole received. In fact, he received the exact...
‘Sarin Doesn’t Slice Throats’: The 2013 Ghouta Massacre Revisited
by William Van Wagenen | Jun 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
"Germ and chemical weapons may often be weak in their battlefield applications but they are always strong in their emotiveness. Accusations of association with them have for centuries, even millennia, been used by well-intentioned as well as unscrupulous people to...