If you let the popularity of an idea – no matter how silly – dictate your stance, then you are not a very good elected official. If you completely ignore and shoo-away and disparage overwhelming public sentiment on an issue, then you are not a very good elected official. And, in the latter case, doing so used to mean your job at risk. But that, in the large and depressing part, is no longer the case. And that […]
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Alberto Mingardi The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynesby Zachary D. CarterRandom House, 656 pages, $37 , Why should someone write another biography of Keynes? Major biographies of John Maynard Keynes (not merely books on Keynes and Keynesianism, of which the supply is far larger) include the 1951 Life of John Maynard Keynes by Roy Harrod; the 1992 Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography by Donald Moggridge, and the multi-volume biography by Robert […]
If Milei supports a central bank, he is wrong. Hoppe is right. On the issues of Ukraine and Israel, however, Hoppe is mistaken. He was correct in stating that the state itself fuels terrorism and war. However, given that the state exists, individuals do not have the right to commit aggression against it. Resistance must be directed appropriately. Many who engage in state-driven aggression do not do so with the goal of abolishing the state. Take Hamas, for […]
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, White House economic advisor Peter Navarro said the tariffs set to be announced this week would be one of the biggest tax increases in American history—while also promising the exact opposite. “The message here is that tariffs are tax cuts,” Navarro told Fox News’ Shannon Bream in response to a question about President Donald Trump’s apparent lack of concern over how tariffs could hike the price of cars. But that’s […]
The Right- both “awake” and in conservative slumber- are still rejoicing over Donald Trump’s glorious election to a second term as president. He won every swing state, we are told repeatedly. Or is it battleground state? I get confused. I guess either one works. Think Hamas and Hezbollah. Trump certainly seemed like a winner at first, bull rushing around with autopen in hand, writing executive orders and breaking the china. But what exactly has changed? Well, the stock market has […]
For the first time in more than 80 years, the U.S. has denied Mexico’s request for water from the Colorado River, escalating tensions over a water-sharing agreement between the two nations. The State Department says it denied the request because Mexico hasn’t complied with the 1944 treaty that established the water-sharing system. That agreement requires Mexico to send 1.75 million acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande to the U.S. every five years. In turn, the U.S. must […]
4/2/1980: Justice Stanley Forman Reed dies. Justice Stanley Forman Reed The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 2, 1980 appeared first on Reason.com.
While monetary authorities and the government claim that they are “fighting inflation,” the truth is that inflation is an important tool for political and economic elites who are centralizing political life.
