One of Trump’s more bizarre claims recently is that gasoline now costs less than $2 per gallon. As every casual observer knows, the price is closer to $3.
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Unlike the US, Canada (at least on paper) recognizes a legal right to secession. Alberta gov’t now says it may vote on secession next year.
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The government loads $328 billion of your tax care money on the EBT cards for SNAP recipients, and they go into the stores and they buy Coca Cola products, Frito…
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India claims it is attacking “terrorist infrastructure.” Both countries have nuclear weapons.
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Mainstream economists have been obsessed with finding “optimal” tax rates, and Nicholas Kaldor‘s 1940 formalization of the “optimal” tariff is no exception. Austrian economists, however, know that there is no…
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The Trump White House has enacted tariffs in the belief that other countries are “cheating” by enacting tariffs against US goods and “manipulating” their currencies. However, with the US dollar…
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This slim book engagingly written encapsulates the basic lessons of money and of how it is deformed by government and central banking in a magical story that will charm and…
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The antitrust lawsuit against Google by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to dismantle the tech giant on the grounds that it has “monopolized the internet search market.”…
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When people speak of “social justice,” they are not speaking of justice in any historical form but rather an imaginary state of affairs in which the state enforces a progressive…