Guatemala has elected Alejandro Giammattei as its new president. The president elect opposes the “safe third country” deal with the United States that current president, Jimmy Morales, agreed to. Only time will tell if Giammattei sheds his campaign opinions in order...
Ludwig von Mises, in his Critique of Interventionism, stated that one government intervention in the market creates unintended consequences, which inevitably justifies the next government intervention. Nowhere is this more true than in the healthcare and drug...
Scott talks to Jim Bovard about Bill Clinton's bombing campaign in Serbia twenty years ago, which at the time was widely heralded as a triumph of the "forces of good." It was also, apparently, something that Bill Clinton did as a way to appease Hillary after the...
If I wanted to increase income and wealth inequality, I could start by looking at San Francisco as a model of what to do. Strict property zoning restrictions combined with high taxes make it unaffordable for the non-rich to live there. As reported by the Stanford...
“I would like to say to Milton and Anna [co-author of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960]: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,...
During my presidential campaigns, well-meaning supporters would sometimes suggest I stop emphasizing opposition to overseas intervention and focus on fiscal issues. I disregarded the advice, not only because adopting a noninterventionist foreign policy is crucial to...
In 1921, the black dominated Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the wealthiest in the city. The presence of nice hotels, jewelry shops, and so forth earned it the nickname: "Black Wall Street". By the end of the year, members of the city's white...
The libertarian movement has been chided by William F. Buckley, Jr., for failing to use its "strategic intelligence" in facing the major problems of our time. We have, indeed, been too often prone to "pursue our busy little seminars on whether or not to demunicipalize...
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