In his latest defense of bloated military spending, President Joe Biden claims that the military budget creates real wealth. Instead, military spending is destroying it. Original Article: President...
Statists reveal their belief in the almighty state in many different ways, but they all want the same outcome: more government control over our lives. Original Article: The Anatomy...
Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economicsby Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022; 222 pp. Deirdre McCloskey is a great economic historian, and in Beyond Positivism,...
Protectionists are no better than any run-of-the-mill Progressive who wants more taxes on one group in order to subsidize some other group. There’s no moral high ground here for...
“Salus populi suprema lex.” The health of the people is the supreme law. As ruling ideals go, this is a good one. Unfortunately, the governing class in...
According to the Case-Shiller index, home prices have increased 44 percent since February 2020. That’s just an average, of course, and some markets have seen increases in...
This week’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to ban — for now — Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot is the latest escalation in the...
British conservative critics of industrialization invented new terms like “wage slavery,” “factory slavery,” and “white slavery.” Much of the conservatives’ terminology and their arguments would later be...
Economic nationalists are once again fawning over Democratic US senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. First it was for his opposition to Chinese-owned US farmland. Now he is...
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Mark Thornton to discuss Jerome Powell’s most recent announcement. As the Fed signals...