Matthew Cavedon The federal government’s plea for effectively unbounded prosecutorial forum shopping is incompatible with the original meaning of the Constitution’s provisions limiting venue. Details of the case are presented…
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Trump Shouldn’t Cook the Books at the BLS, But It Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think
Alex Nowrasteh and Adam N. Michel President Donald Trump recently fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the agency released unexpectedly weak job growth figures, accusing her of…
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The recent political firefight over Trumps firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer overshadows the underlying question of why we need the BLS at all. Murray Rothbard noted that government statistics…
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The Federal Reserve has what the New York Times called its “biggest shindig” of the year at Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week. What mischief are they up to?
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The notion that transparency fosters trust fails to account for the indispensable role of privacy. Privacy is not merely a personal preference—it is the guarantor of fungibility.
In normal human affairs, actions like lying, theft, and murder are considered to be immoral and anti-social. However, people are quick to accept those same behaviors from government agents and…
What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling against a brutal authoritarian regime. The truth is that once…
Americans wrongly believe that the best way to take care of our scenic lands is through government ownership and administration. The reality is that bureaucrats are not good land managers,…