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The political passion for "social justice" is creating a larger free-rider problem and a problem of injustice. Original Article: "Social Justice and the Free-Rider Problem" [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

The yearly growth rate of the consumer price index jumped from 5.4 percent in June 2021 to 9.1 percent in June 2022. Some economists attributed this increase to monopolies. According to Business Insider, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston have claimed that monopolies help keep the prices of goods and services high. Most economists believe that monopolies make markets less efficient by influencing the prices and the quantity of products. Efficiencies...

On this episode of Good Money, Tho is joined by Tate Fegley of Montreat College. Dr. Fegley talks about his lectures from Mises University on policing, AI, and the deep state, and the important topic of economic calculation that connects the three. In the final segment, Tho looks at the economics of college football in the aftermath of FSU's threat of secession from their conference.  Good Money listeners can order a special $5 book bundle that includes How...

To seriously threaten the regime, one must attack it at its roots. This would require rejecting the modern civil rights legal regime, something modern Buckleyite conservatives and James Lindsay-style liberals are not interested in, and unites paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians. Original Article: "Paleoconservatives Need Better Critics" [embedded content]...

In 1964, Leonard Read wrote a genealogy from the perspective of a pencil, demonstrating the vast, complicated web of the structure of production that is handled by the division of labor on free markets. The pencil explained that no one knows how to make a pencil because of the myriad production processes involved: My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. Now contemplate all the saws and...

Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures. Original Article: "Belgian Colonialism of the Congo: Facts and Fiction" [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

Depending on one’s perspective, technology can be viewed as either an opportunity or a threat. Some people celebrate technical advances while others show disdain. Entrepreneurs are frequently eager to capitalize on the potential advantages of new technologies, but where entrepreneurs see room for dynamism, naysayers see doom. In this story, entrepreneurs are akin to wizards who use the magic of technology to improve the world, and naysayers are prophets of...

Michael and guest co-host Ben Ahdoot talk with Ron Unz about RFK, Jr., Ron's American Prava series, the Unz Review, the Great Reset, censorship, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and more. On the American Pravda Video of On the American Pravda [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

The tyrannical threat of the biomedical security state is ever present. While those that cheered for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the shutdown of the global economy retreat to the back pages of the news, the World Health Organization and their ilk are already gearing up for the next crisis. The covid scare may have lost its political potency, but you can be sure that "public health emergencies" will continue to be a powerful tool for future control. Join us for a...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you’re undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb” for leading the group of scientists who created that deadly weapon as part of America’s World War II-era Manhattan Project. The film has earned widespread attention, with large numbers of people participating in what’s already become known as...