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Economics
TGIF: Trump Weighs in on Netflix, WBD, and CNN
The proposed merger of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) "could be a problem," Donald Trump says, because Netflix has "a very big market share. When they have Warner Bros., that share goes up a lot." He said he would consult "some economists" on the matter,...
The Ghost of Inflation Past, Present, and Future
Austrians are used to being called cranks. Point out that inflation is a hidden tax, that monetary expansion distorts the structure of production, or that fiat currency erodes living standards in ways far subtler than headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers ever...
Billionaires, Not Socialists, Are the Biggest Threat to the Free Market
The greatest economic and political study of fascism, published by classical liberal journalist John T. Flynn at the height of World War II, is perhaps the best and most concise summary of America’s economic system today. The thesis of As We Go Marching (1944) states...
TGIF: Socialism with a Fig Leaf
What work does democratic perform in the phrase democratic socialism? It's a fig leaf intended to conceal what would presumably be repugnant to most people: the coercive regimentation inherent in socialism, whether international (Marxist) or national (fascist)....
Henry Hazlitt, ‘Economic Conscience of a Nation’
Henry Hazlitt’s life story reads like a microcosm of the American century. Born in Philadelphia on November 28, 1894, he lost his father in infancy and left the City College of New York to support his widowed mother. In the fluid labor market of the time he bounced...
Zionist Elites Are Using Big Government to Turn Finance into ‘Philanthropy’
In the past few months, I have reported for the Libertarian Institute on powerful American Jewish Zionists’ campaigns to unseat a sitting Republican congressman; to silence non-violent university protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza; to blunt MAGA’s criticisms...
Inflation is Class Warfare Against the Poor
If you were to double the money in circulation instantly, society as a whole would be no richer. Printing more zeros on the currency does nothing to produce more of the necessities and luxuries of life. But wage earners would see the purchasing power of their wages...
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