Scott interviews Nasser Arrabyee about the latest on the war in Yemen. The humanitarian situation there is still desperate, with the UN finally updating its estimates to over 200,000 dead—many of these women and young children. But Arrabyee sees reasons for hope. For...
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The WTO Is Both Irrelevant and Unnecessary
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a state of crisis. Despite grandiose dreams of a global trade organization that would enforce global bureaucrats' broad vision for multilateral trade agreements, the world looks more and more like it neither wants nor needs an...
When It Comes to Raw Power, Few Have More of It Than Central Bankers
by Per Bylund | Feb 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
A common retort to the claim that in voluntary exchange both parties expect to become better off (or they wouldn’t do it) is that exchanges are seldom, if ever, a matter of horizontal, equal exchange of values. Instead, any such interaction between people is...
Trump’s Shifting Justification for Killing Soleimani guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 24, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #456, Will Porter returns to the show to discuss the evolving justification for Trump's assassination of Soleimani. Will explains how the Trump admin has now given several reasons that they needed to and had the power to kill Soleimani. Will and Kyle look at...
Crystal Munoz
by Scott Horton | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog
Crystal Munoz is one of the people granted clemency by Trump yesterday. Let's see what it was she did that led to the federal prosecutors kidnapping her away from her life and her family for 19 years before Trump cut it short: “Her nightmare began when DEA agents...
Ukraine Officials Say US Holding Up Arms Sale
by Jason Ditz | Feb 7, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Trump withholds approval for sales, Ukraine wants a refund Ukrainian officials are clearly looking to flex their muscles in the wake of being the foreign policy centerpiece of the Trump impeachment, accusing the US of holding up another $30 million worth of standard...
The Red Flag Flying Over the Second Amendment
by Jay Chambers | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The Second Amendment is the provision in the Bill of Rights that seems to scare people the most. Why? The Second Amendment lays down the groundwork for the right to keep and bear arms. Specifically, it asserts that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is the...
The Virus Has A Racism Problem – It’s Not What You Think
by Zack Sorenson | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog
Commentators have said that people are being racist for worrying about Coronavirus and especially when they avoid Chinese people. We should never treat people poorly or be a jerk, but when you have a serious infectious disease problem with a lot of unknowns, the use...
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Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
Taking It for Granted
"Capitalism, says Marx, unthinkingly repeating the fables of the eulogists of the Middle Ages, has an inevitable tendency to impoverish the workers more and more. The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners who frequently...
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