Imagine two criminals: Criminal 1: Forcibly stopped a woman from having a 1 in 10 million vote to determine the governor of New York Criminal 2: Forcibly stopped a woman from getting the job of her dreams via occupational licensing regulations even though a...
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‘Greedflation’ Is a Red Herring
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 21, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Even as price inflation slows and we move past June’s peak, progressives continue to push the concept of “greedflation”—that this year’s price inflation is caused by corporate greed and price gouging. This is inaccurate, based on bad economics, and it blames a...
Fake News Exposed: Inflation, Iran, College, America First, and Poland
by The Libertarian Institute | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog, Economics, Libertarian Institute Roundtable, Politics
https://youtu.be/OVmAJhnGxLU What Makes Wages Rise The buyers do not pay for the toil and trouble the worker took nor for the length of time he spent in working. They pay for the products. The better the tools are which the worker uses in his job, the more he can...
Powell Promises More Rate Hikes
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 3, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the target federal funds rate 75 basis points on Wednesday, marking the fourth 75-basis-point hike in a row since June. The federal funds rate is now the highest it's been since December of 2007 when...
Washington D.C.’s Colonialist Relationship With the 50 States
by Keith Knight | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog
Those who believe Washington D.C. has the right to control Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nebraska, and Kansas are true imperialists. All the regulatory agencies that Democrats support literally are imperialist, i.e. one group arbitrarily imposing its will on another...
How America Was Lied Into Both World Wars
by Keith Knight | Oct 25, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/ukKSob-6aAM The human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and the victories of the Righteous Cause we have still not found Peace or Security, and that we lie in the grip...
Replacing the Logic of “Workplace Democracy” With the Iron Law of Oligarchy
by Keith Knight | Oct 18, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/py1C_4ZX174 The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law"...
How to Tell if a Politician is Evil or Ignorant (feat. Bryan Caplan, Ph.D.)
by Keith Knight | Sep 20, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/zJCEQRVgUTs My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits...
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We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity
Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...
Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was
I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2
"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1
"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...
Billion Dollar Disasters Continue to Steam Ahead
Word. The Zumwalt-class destroyer will never be the battleship of the twenty-first century. It’s the U.S. Navy’s version of the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Yet another multi-billion dollar failure. Yet, the instant that the Zumwalt-class appears to...
Martial Law in South Korea & Ukraine’s No-Fly Zone: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Are we witnessing the dawn of a new geopolitical crisis in Asia? As South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol declares martial law over perceived threats from the North, the region teeters on the edge of upheaval. This episode of the Kyle Angelo show dives into the...
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