How badly off course is the USA when the Chinese Communist Party's essentially fascist dictatorship can credibly laugh and mock our failures like this? The Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump governments have driven this country into the ground with their horrible foreign,...
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When the Government’s ‘Cure’ Aids the Disease
by Michael Maharrey | May 18, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Remember all of the government bailouts and stimulus in response to the 2008 financial crisis? Conservatives threw a fit. The Tea Party movement grew out of worry about the impact of all of the stimulus, money-printing, and the taxes they knew were coming down the...
TGIF: Is Self-reliance a Libertarian Ideal?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 17, 2020 | Economics, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
An Associated Press article published a few days ago reported on disagreements among libertarians over what, if anything, the government may properly do about the coronavirus pandemic. My purpose here is not to comment on the quotes from the various libertarians. I...
How Agorism Evolves Past The State
by Mark Maresca | Apr 15, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Agorism, in all its various forms, promotes self-reliance and independent entrepreneurial ventures. It is a process that is evolving past the State and making it obsolete. We cannot disregard the State completely; we have no illusions about this. But evolving past the...
The Biggest Heist in Human History
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 11, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
As he valiantly tried to get a recorded vote on House passage of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus bill (the CARE Act), Rep. Thomas Massie learned once again last month the chief difference between the members of Congress and the inmates of a maximum security prison:...
Risk? We don’t Need No Stinking Risk!
by Tom Luongo | Apr 11, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
We’ve crossed the monetary Rubicon. There is no going back to the way things were. With the creation of a series of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) the Treasury Dept. and the Federal Reserve have fundamentally altered the financial landscape of the United States. We...
Live Your Life
by Scott Shearin | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Could it be that we’re simply a victim of our own technology and the hubris acquired in response to its perceived capabilities?
How the CARES Act Will Delay Economic Recovery
by Bradley Thomas | Apr 8, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
The economic fallout of the government’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Nearly ten million people have filed for unemployment benefits in just two weeks. The 6.6 million claims from the last week of March doubled the previous...
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Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...
The Impasse
Liberty is only acceptable for a virtuous people.
The Great Enrichment Is Real
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...
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