If there is anything Wall Street banks crave is relief. Primarily relief from the potential for failure and, next, relief from holding much, if any, equity capital. These banks like their capital tiny and their profits huge. Losses should be socialized. After all, we...
Libertarians think that taxation is theft. The government takes away part of your income and property by force. Your payments aren’t voluntary. If you think they are, try to withhold payment and see what happens. An influential book by Liam Murphy and Thomas...
Libertarians embrace civil liberties more than liberals, markets more than conservatives, and freedom more than just about anyone. Yet they can’t get elected to public office in meaningful numbers. It’s the same with independents. It’s not as if getting elected is...
Media reports say that 20 million Americans will lose their “healthcare” under the Republican plan to replace ObamaCare, as if healthcare is like a cellphone, wallet, or item of clothing unintentionally left somewhere or stolen by someone. Such confusion about...
Want to know the truth about student loans? Good luck. As with so many emotionally-loaded and politically-charged issues of the day, it’s nearly impossible for someone to know the full truth about student loans. By the time the issue is run through the propaganda...
Dallas's pension problems finally came to a head this past week. After weeks of increasingly dire headlines and the pension equivalent of a run on the bank, the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System finally decided to suspend lump-sum...
Connecting the Dots on the Declining Work Ethic: Video Games, Student Debt, Drugs, and Welfare A recent scholarly study, a recent newspaper story, a recent newspaper column, and a recent magazine article seemed at first blush to be on unrelated subjects. But they...
Michael Moore's latest film, Where to Invade Next? and the subjective theory of value Love him or hate him, you have to respect Michael Moore as one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. As a filmmaker and author, he has satisfied the demand for provocative...
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
