Donald Trump wants to create a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). It's a bad idea if your standard is freedom, free enterprise, and free markets. That's not Trump's standard, but we already knew that. A sovereign wealth fund is a government-run investment program. Where...
Libertarianism
TGIF: The Aim of Classical Liberalism
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 28, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
These are dark days for liberalism. I mean full, across-the-board, laissez-faire free-market, classical liberalism, otherwise known as libertarianism. While some budget-cutting and bureaucracy slimming will probably go through, those steps, though necessary to advance...
Squaring the Libertarian Circle on Tariffs and Immigration
by Benjamin Seevers | Feb 27, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
President Donald Trump claimed in a statement that his tariffs would help with “the major threat of illegal aliens.” This is a puzzling claim. While it might be true that tariffs can be used as a tool for negotiations with Mexico, immigration control and trade...
Lew Rockwell, Champion of Liberty
by Norman Singleton | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
This summary of Lew Rockwell’s contributions to the liberty movement will show that Lew has done more to spread libertarian ideas than anyone else not named Ron Paul. Lew was born in Boston in 1944. His father was an “Old Right” Republican who gave Lew a copy of Henry...
TGIF: Emergency! Emergency?
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 14, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
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,...
TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... —U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV Donald Trump says he wants a "revolution of common sense." If he means it, he will abandon his...
The State is Nothing But Appetite
by Oscar Grau | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Be it the group that controls the state apparatus or the one that represents the institution of government, let us simply refer to the state. While the state cannot achieve everything, it can certainly achieve much, because the state is the monopoly of monopolies—the...
TGIF: Why McKinley?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densely populated nations? The answer is: war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and...