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Prepare for Negative Interest Rates
Negative rates are the destruction of money, an economic aberration based on the mistakes of many central banks and some of their economists, who all start from a wrong diagnosis: the idea that economic agents do not take more credit or invest more because they choose...
Nancy Pelosi’s Disastrous Idea To Have a ‘9/11 Commission’ About the Capitol Attack
Many members of Congress remain outraged at the Trump protestors who charged into the Capitol on January 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently declared, “We must get to the truth of how this happened…Our next step will be to establish an outside, independent...
Ron Paul Calls Out Joe Biden’s Threat to Restrict Interstate Travel
Candidate Joe Biden promised not to abuse his executive authority or shut down the economy in order to fight the coronavirus. Instead, he said he would "listen to the science." An order limiting the ability of Americans to travel across state lines would violate all...
The Banned Books of the Cold War-Era Soviet Union
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”- George R. R. Martin The authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union has been buried by apologist revisionism and has been romanced in the...
Help Support the Libertarian Institute!
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
Bitcoin is King
Bitcoin is winning. Period. In fact, it may have already won and the people arrayed against it, no matter how powerful, are finally beginning to realize this. This week saw a slew of major announcements which all point in this direction. Of course the big news...
How To Make Housing Less Affordable
Few things in life are more certain than the costs of something exploding whenever government embarks on programs to make them “affordable.” It took just five years after the passage of the “Affordable Care Act” for insurance premiums on the private market to more...
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Idaho Cop Arrested For Repeatedly Raping Immobile Cancer Patient
In one of the most disturbing instances of police sexual misconduct we’ve reported here at the Free Thought Project a retired police corporal was arrested this week for repeatedly raping a woman so sick with cancer that she couldn’t fight back. Scott Wayne McMikle,...
The Military Occupation of Washington DC is a Ticking Time Bomb
“Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked. As the massive National Guard troop deployment in Washington enters its second month, much of the media and...
TGIF: What Now, Libertarians?
The prospects for individual liberty and the required rollback of the government seem as bleak as ever, but we can't let appearances, no matter how pervasive, be decisive. The spark within most people--the longing to chart one's course in life--never really dies....
Joe Biden Will Embroil America In ‘Great Power’ Politics
Since the George W. Bush era, when it comes to presidential elections, the American people have come to expect that the final contestants will be jingoes. After the primaries have finished and the nominees have been named, it can be presumed that both candidates will...
The Establishment Will Never Let Us Leave Afghanistan
With the 20th anniversary of the Afghanistan war now just around the corner, Americans might reasonably wonder whether the nation’s longest war is ever going to end. After carefully considering the question, two retired four-star generals, two former U.S. senators,...
America’s Most Decorated Living Soldier Says Bring Our Troops Home
The day begins early in Chester, West Virginia, a town of a few thousand that hugs the southern bank of the Ohio River. It’s only 8:30am but John and Peggy are already bundled up in their coats, hats, and gloves as they take their three bird dogs outside for some...
Florida Governor’s Attack on ‘Big Tech’ Violates U.S. Constitution
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis intends to violate both U.S. and Florida Constitutions with his regulation of Facebook, Google and Twitter. If Governor Ron DeSantis signs this legislation into law he will be violating the U.S. Constitution’s Contract Clause as written...
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