Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking “action necessary to defend the dollar against...
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TGIF: Evict the President
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 13, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
President Biden has reversed himself under pressure from his progressive flank and has given the go-ahead for a new moratorium on renter evictions throughout most of the United States for individuals making up to $99,000 a year (couples, $198,000). The twist is that...
U.S. Emergency Deploys 3,000 Additional Soldiers to Afghanistan to Evacuate Embassy
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. is sending about 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. embassy in Kabul as the Taliban is making rapid gains across the country. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. is sending three infantry battalions that are due...
How the Warfare-Welfare State (Unfortunately) Unites Americans
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 12, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
In case you haven’t noticed, America is “deeply divided.” At least, that’s what a seemingly nonstop stream of headlines from major media sources would have us believe. “Trump Leaves America at Its Most Divided since the Civil War,” reads one CNN headline from earlier...
After Two Years, Cop Charged For Shooting Mentally Ill Man and His Parents at Costco
by Matt Agorist | Aug 12, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported in June of 2019, panic erupted inside a Corona, California Costco as multiple people were injured and one man was killed during a shooting. Dozens of shoppers immediately dropped to the ground as fears of the next mass shooting filled their thoughts....
Eviction Moratorium: A Postmortem on Private Property
by Michael Milano | Aug 11, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
At the beseeching of congressional Democrats and the fanatical urgings of Nancy Pelosi, who called the extension of the federal eviction moratorium a “moral imperative,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new nationwide ban on evictions...
The Phony Threat of Chinese Dominance
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 11, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While the US has its problems, future global Chinese supremacy won’t be one. Far from being in a position of overwhelming strength, China and its Communist leadership face imminent multifront domestic crises that will threaten the existence not only of the Chinese...
An Open Letter to the Person Who Gave Me COVID
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | Aug 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
To the Person Who Gave Me the Virus: I have no idea who you are, but our paths almost surely crossed last month in Las Vegas. Even now I wouldn't change a thing about that trip, by the way, which was a blast. The existence of the virus, it's true, made my life a...