A Twitter/X exchange over the weekend is bringing new light to an issue long shrouded in mystery: the status of America’s purported stockpile of 8,133 tons of gold stored in Fort Knox and other government vaults across the country. News aggregator ZeroHedge tweeted at...
Look, as a libertarian I think the list of federal entities to be abolished soon should include the: Consumer Financial Protection Board, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve System,...
For more than half a century, the global economy has operated under a monetary system divorced from gold. The 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods system, where the U.S. dollar’s convertibility to gold was suspended, ushered in the fiat money era, a regime in which...
The newly born Reform Party UK, with its freshmen five members of Parliament, recently attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit quantitative easing (QE) except for emergency situations. This was done through a procedure the British parliamentary system calls...
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
As American consumers and businesses face the looming possibility of additional tariffs under a second Trump administration, it is worth revisiting the incisive critique of protectionism put forth by economist Murray Rothbard in his book Power and Market. Rothbard’s...
California’s catastrophic wildfires have become an annual tragedy. Beyond the devastation they bring to communities and ecosystems, these fires are a powerful metaphor for the unintended consequences of human intervention in natural systems. A primary culprit in...
It sounds silly; a libertarian-left alliance on economics? It's almost like the wolf and the sheep allying on what’s for dinner. But hear me out. There’s a global political realignment in the works, and it’s clearly based on stopping the military-industrial complex,...
