The natural response in the face of a pandemic like the one we are experiencing today with COVID-19 is to take immediate and direct action to curb the crisis. We are told we need to have extensive quarantines, citywide lockdowns, and shelter-in-place orders. We...
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To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan
by Richard Ebeling | Mar 20, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Momentous events usually leave strong memories on those who have lived through them, and those memories often become passed on to later generations in the form of historical interpretations of why and what had happened in the past. This has certainly been so in the...
The Money-Printing Gods Have Failed
by David Stockman | Mar 18, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
Hooray! Finally even the robo-machines and day traders are puking, not BTFDing. Today’s 3,000 Dow Point Dump says even they have had enough of the craven dolts who occupy the Eccles Building. You do not need a PhD in economics—or even a night school survey course—to...
A Pandemic Is No Time to Disparage Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog
Jeff Tucker's "In a Disease Panic, the Free Market Is Your Friend" ought to be atop everyone's reading list. As libertarians well know, people who are under the delusion that government is a creative element in society, rather than a predator, will never let a good...
The Reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus
by Zack Sorenson | Mar 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Exponential functions. Understand this, and you’ll grasp the reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus from China. I know math sucks, but if you can get this, you’ll lift the fog on just how bad this is. With the Novel Coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2), some speculate that...
Hey, Jay, Enough Of Your Stinkin’ Easy Money!
by David Stockman | Mar 6, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
It doesn’t get any more pathetic than this. The Fed cuts the absurdly low money market rate by another 50 basis points at 10AM and before noon the Donald is banging the podium for more. So if you ever needed a final warning to get out of the casino, today’s...
The “F” Word
by Bradley Thomas | Mar 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
There’s a four letter word beginning with ‘f’ that’s on a lot of people’s lips these days. I’m talking about “free.” Free just might be the most powerful word in the English language. It drastically alters people’s behaviors and can short-circuit mental reasoning like...
2/27/20 Bob Murphy on the Coming Financial Crisis
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott has Bob Murphy on the show to explain the Austrian School's view of the boom and bust cycle in the American economy. Murphy explains why the Keynesians are wrong to assert that booms and busts are simply an inherent feature of capitalism. In fact, it is...
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The White House Showdown That Shook Europe: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
In a fiery White House meeting, Donald Trump and JD Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, igniting a political firestorm that sent shockwaves through Europe.As European leaders rush to Zelensky’s defense, is the West fracturing over Ukraine? Plus,...
K46 Refueler Grounded Again
The last KC135s were produced in the 1960s and the Boeing KC46 was thr program to update and replace it. It is a disaster. The crisis continues as the refueler programs continue to crash and burn. After the inspection, if any cracks are found, “the aircraft will...
Let’s Not “Run after a Share in the Trouble”
Of course “principles,” phrases, and catch-words are always invented to bolster up any policy which anybody wants to recommend. So in this case. The people who have led us on to shut ourselves in, and who now want us to break out, warn us against the terrors of...
Anti-War Blog – Herr Himmler and the Boys
In many ways Heinrich Himmler is the depiction of a perfect historical villain. A chief Nazi and a key player in the mass murder of millions of human beings in the name of State policy and the religious ideology of Nazism. Towards the end of the war, as it was obvious...
Peace is Always Preferable to War Alliances
In case anyone missed it, the Red EU and NATO Pact are the new 21st century variant of the USSR rekindled to make luxury communism great again. The mask on the NATO midgets has finally slipped and the true villains rise from behind the curtain. The sooner the US backs...
The Left Will Not Quit w/J. Burden
J. Burden joined me to discuss the politics of the time, and the tactics of the left. J.Burden Show Alp 10% off
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