https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhoSMNfPrg Jeffrey Tucker and I discuss the morality of capitalism and right wing collectivism. LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/Is-Capitalism-Moral_-Jeffrey-Tucker-and-Keith-Knight:5 BitChute:...
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Price-Gouging Laws Violate the First Amendment
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Justice
Laws against so-called price gouging -- that is, price spikes during emergencies -- violate our natural right to engage in voluntary exchange at mutually acceptable terms. As economics has long taught, price ceilings that defy market forces make the affected goods...

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice – REBUTTED
by Keith Knight | Mar 11, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone, Economics, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHTrwE7CeA To summarize Rawls- "So much of life is the result of circumstance that no person can be entitled to what they "earn", therefore one group of people called government has the monopoly right to initiate violence against...

The NSA’s Encroaching Oversight
by Ken Silva | Feb 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The NSA’s spy program failed miserably, but some spooks want to expand it The US National Security Agency spent $100 million over three years on illegally collecting millions of American phone records – all for two reports with unique counterterrorism intelligence,...
Data Don’t Speak for Themselves
by Matt Knight | Feb 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
Check out this graph, data for which were drawn from the USDA and CDC: With a correlation coefficient of about -0.94, these data indicate that for the decade 2000-2009 there was a strong inverse relationship between per capita consumption of beef and the number of...
Federal Confiscation Reflects Mission Creep and the Expanding Police State
by Randall Holcombe | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
In 2019, the Transportation Security Administration seized $181,000 in cash from an employee of a Tampa trucking company while he was going through a TSA checkpoint for a flight from Tampa to Cleveland. According to the employee and his employer, the worker...
‘I Was Just Following Orders’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
“I was just following orders” is the mantra of everyone who has found themselves on the wrong side of history - who is called into account for their actions as an order taker. How is it possible that everyone from corrupt mayors, to murderous tyrants have been able to...
Support Grows for West Virginia Bill to Block Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments
by Michael Maharrey | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (Feb. 10, 2020) – There was political drama in West Virginia last week as the sponsor of a bill that would prohibit unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s national guard troops narrowly failed in a parliamentary move to get it...