https://youtu.be/f7HG2ljcgTk First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your...
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Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
by Bryan Caplan | May 25, 2023 | Blog
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Government Controls You by Controlling Your Trading Partners
by Bryan Caplan | May 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
Here’s an odd thought for a libertarian: The government very rarely tells me to do anything. Once per year, the IRS orders me to pay federal income taxes. Once per year, the state of Virginia forces me to pay state income taxes and get my car inspected. Once per...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
by Keith Knight | May 20, 2023 | Blog
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
by Keith Knight | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Libertarian Institute Roundtable
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
Bernie Sanders Is Angry About Wealth
by Trenton Hale | May 17, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
Bernie is at it again folks. Recently, the Democratic senator proposed that the government confiscate all the money that a person makes above $999 million. This came about from an interview with Chris Wallace discussing his new book, It’s OK to Be Angry About...
The Truth About Discrimination – Walter E. Williams
by Keith Knight | May 14, 2023 | Blog
If people are free to discriminate in favor of, or against, a university or wine, what argument can be made against their having that same right with respect to choosing based on the race or sex characteristics of their mates, employees, tenants, or club members? If...
Black Youth Unemployment Before Democrats Started “Helping”
by Keith Knight | May 13, 2023 | Blog
Although most people are familiar with more recent statistics on black youth unemployment, not many are aware of the black/white statistics for earlier periods. Table 3.2 (below) shows that in 1948, the two were roughly equal. For that year, blacks aged sixteen to...
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.
A Home into a House
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
Ben Shapiro Shows Why He Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Dave Smith highlights another reason why Ben Shapiro’s attempts to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza cannot be taken seriously.
Netanyahu’s Godson’s Father-in-Law Trump: Jewish Americans who vote for Biden don’t love Israel
Jeez. Who does Genocide Joe have to help Israel first-degree mass murder to get some respect from the Zionists around here? Biden could drop a nuke on Rahmallah and Trump would cry that his would have been a thermo-nuke and he'd'a hit the Jenin refugee camp while he...
The IDF Follies Continue
The "vaunted" Israeli Defense Forces have an entirely undeserved reputation subject to gushing hagiographic treatment in the corporate/access media and even their intelligence services have reputations untethered to reality. The historians will have a cottage industry...
Video: IDF Murders Civilians Gathering Aid
Blood-soaked IDF war criminals teach Palestinians the price of collecting humanitarian aid: summary execution. Food sure makes good bait for starving refugees, huh? Well you know who else eats food? That's right, Hamas. Footage obtained by Al Jazeera. Exclusive...
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