The “woke left” and “woke right” are lumped together as two types of “woke.” But it is intellectually lazy and obscures truth to identify all opponents as the same because of superficial similarities.
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As both left and right throw freedom and free markets over the side, we remember that there still is a remnant that understands why these things make for a good society. Albert J. Nock eloquently reminds us of what we are losing.
Red + green = brown. Mark Thornton shows how towering debt and easy money set the stage for hyperinflation.
While libertarians, and many conservatives, often rightly discuss problems of government intervention, there is a counterintuitive category where the government simultaneously monopolizes, taxes, and refuses to provide promised services.
After being bamboozled by the fake crisis of “overpopulation” for a half-century, the nations with advanced economies are coming to grips with the “birth dearth” problems ahead of them. Not surprisingly, governments are compounding their earlier anti-population errors.
Jonathan Newman joins Ryan and Connor this week to discuss the latest developments in Trump’s campaign to “takeover” the Fed, the current state of the jobs market, and the misconceptions people have about how economists value the choice not to work.
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Liberating Liberty; Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness and the Creator of Man by Bert Schwitters, praising the author’s insights into the founding of the United States.
For the first time since 1996, central banks’ foreign exchange holdings hold more gold than US Treasuries.
Total job gains have now averaged a paltry 29,000 for the past three months. The job growth we do see is part-time work.
Nixon’s 1971 decision didn’t just close a gold window—it opened the door to a fiat future of perpetual inflation, asset bubbles, moral hazard, and chronic economic dysfunction.