Gross racial discrimination alone has never been sufficient to prevent blacks from earning a living and bettering themselves by working as skilled or unskilled craftsmen and as business owners, accumulating considerable wealth. The fact that whites sought out blacks...
economics
GDP is a Scam, Here’s How to Measure Wealth
by Keith Knight | May 4, 2023 | Blog, Libertarian Institute Roundtable
https://youtu.be/mYfH_9arsRk In 1981, the cheapest IBM personal computer cost $4,459 (in 2018 U.S. dollars), or 210 hours of labor. An Insignia tablet and keyboard combo cost $120 in 2018, or 5.6 hours of labor. - Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know, CATO...
Washington Frustrated with Allies Refusal to Enforce Sanctions on Russia
by Kyle Anzalone | May 2, 2023 | News
The White House is becoming frustrated with its partners in the Group of 7’s (G7) refusal to commit to its economic war against the Kremlin. After the invasion of Ukraine last year, President Joe Biden pledged to isolate Moscow and cripple the Russian economy. However, the Kremlin has found ample access to the world economy, including some of Washington’s closest allies.
The Democratic Policy Which Keeps Poor People Poor – Walter E. Williams
by Keith Knight | Apr 30, 2023 | Blog
To criticize occupational licensing laws is not to argue that information about the quality of a licensee's services is not important to consumers. However, it is by no means clear that licensing is the most effective way to provide that information. Indeed, licensing...
How Economic Regulation Hurts the Poor – Walter E. Williams
by Keith Knight | Apr 29, 2023 | Blog
In the name of protecting public health, California requires that an individual who seeks to perform any kind of hairstyling service must complete nine months (1,600 hours) of classes at a state-approved cosmetology school, at a tuition cost of at least $5,000, before...
How the Divine Right of Kings Scam Was Pulled Off
by Keith Knight | Apr 23, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/0MY12U37IVA In order for the state to function, the mass of the people has to believe in its legitimacy. To that end, the state employs a class of professional apologists and controls the means of propaganda, often through dominance of the education...
My Body My Choice: Abolish Occupational Licensing
by Keith Knight | Apr 22, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
The most immediate effect of licensing is to restrict the number of practitioners because of the higher entry costs involved in meeting the qualifications of the activity. Some licenses, as in the cases of cosmeticians and barbers, require many months of schooling....
The Robber Barons: Historical Fact vs. Progressive Mythology
by Keith Knight | Apr 7, 2023 | Blog, Economics
The standard theory of monopoly within the mainstream of the economics profession is that monopolies increase prices and reduce production levels compared to competitive industries. So I gathered historical economic data on prices and production for seventeen of the...
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Good Resource on Antifa
All of us want fairness and whatever your position on the J6 protests, the Federal government response to that incident and the contrast in handling the very violent Antifa perpetrators and incidents makes one take pause on the behavior of the US DoJ and its tentacled...
A Strategy for Victory – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D.
https://youtu.be/70oW1bau5Tg Th e strategy was dictated by the quasi-libertarian, stateless medieval starting point, and it suggested itself “naturally,” fi rst and foremost to the top ranks of social authority, in particular to feudal kings. In a nutshell, it boils...
Pour One Out for Will Grigg
We miss ya, pal.
George Carlin Imitating a Nice Lady Voice: ‘Well, thank God for that.’
Nearly 90% of feds' office space in D.C. going to waste, government report finds
The Wigan Pier of the Periphery
I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...
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.
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