60 Minutes recently aired an interview with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan conducted by veteran reporter Lesley Stahl. This may have been the first time in their 58-year history that 60 Minutes has profiled an FTC chair, but Lina Khan is not the...
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by Sheldon Richman | Oct 26, 2024 | Blog, Economics, Justice, Politics
TGIF: Happy Halloween, Traders!
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 25, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
It's the Halloween season, the perfect occasion to introduce your young children and grandchildren to the wonders of the market economy. After all, the market is a process in which individuals strive to improve their situations through trade—that is, lucrative...
Are the Global Elites Over Population Control?
by Brad Pearce | Oct 21, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
It is widely believed among libertarians, and really everyone of anti-globalist sentiment, that there is a high-level global depopulation conspiracy. This belief is perhaps best summed up with the pithy phrase, “You are the carbon they want to reduce.” Bill Clinton...
TGIF: Socialism Is War by Other Means
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 18, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Readers may have wondered about a quote I used from Ludwig von Mises recently. In his book Liberalism Mises distinguished the (classical) liberal case against war from what he called the "humanitarian" case against war. To understand Mises, let's examine a...
Blaming Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 17, 2024 | Blog, Economics
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
The Soul of a Socialist
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 12, 2024 | Blog, Economics, Foreign Policy
From the pen of H. G. Wells (1908), socialist: War is a collective concern; to turn one’s back upon it, to refuse to consider it as a possibility, is to leave it entirely to those who are least prepared to deal with it in a broad spirit. In many ways war is the most...
TGIF: Full versus Shrunken Liberalism
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Language, like the old common law and other customs, is a decentralized, undesigned, spontaneous institution. It serves humanity well. Nothing is perfect, of course, but no alternative—if one were conceivable—could hold a candle to it. One of the downsides is that...