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“The public be damned” is a statement by railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt that has been twisted out of context. While the American ruling classes insist that private enterprise is the enemy of the people, it really is our government that bears that distinction. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »How State Intervention Fueled Haiti’s Descent into Chaos
[unable to retrieve full-text content]As the official government in Haiti loses control, many are calling it a failed state. Crises like this are often evoked to discredit libertarians. But blame for Haiti’s current plight lies with the actions of states, not the absence of them. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »Two Cheers for Vivek Ramaswamy for His Commentary on the Fed
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Read More »CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing
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Read More »Personal Medical Bankruptcy: Made in DC
[unable to retrieve full-text content]When the government wants to make something more affordable, that usually means new subsidies, laws, and regulations that drive up the real price. Higher medical prices will mean more medical bankruptcies. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »Failing to Make the Case for Race-Based Reparations
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Read More »Police Dogs Have Abolished Constitutional Due Process
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Read More »California’s Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based on Ratepayers’ Income
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Read More »Carl Menger’s Overlooked Vital Evolutionary Insights
Carl Menger is widely recognized as one of the economists leading the so-called marginalist revolution along with William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras. There are two other contributions by Menger that are relatively underappreciated and are vital for making sense of the socioeconomic order, including why mankind remains so lost in economic ignorance and tribalistic warmongering.They are, first, his insights into the proper method or way to study the economy or...
Read More »Dollar Consolidates Softer Ahead of Tomorrow’s CPI
Overview: The dollar is trading with a softer bias in mostly narrow ranges against the G10 currencies. It did not rally much ahead of the US jobs data, and it was not able to sustain the upside momentum afterwards, despite the jump in US yields. Former St. Louis Fed President Bullard, who still has a strong reputation in the market, told Bloomberg TV yesterday that three cuts were his base case this year. The Scandis and Antipodeans are the strongest today, up about...
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