You’ve probably heard that President Donald Trump is prepared to slap some huge tariffs on nearly all imports from Canada and Mexico this week. But you might also be wondering: How is it that the president can unilaterally decide what tariffs get charged on which imports? And if he’s determined to make everything from Canadian whiskey to Mexican avocados more expensive, can anyone stop him? “It absolutely should not be one person making these decisions,” Rep. Suzan DelBene […]
The history of the welfare state is the history of the state’s savage war of aggrandizement and seizure of authority against civil society. Whether in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in Scandinavia, or in the United States, the coercive state systematically destroyed the “voluntary sector” of civil society and those intermediary institutions that protected the individual from the direct contact and control by the state [much as the Church did for nearly all of […]
Tweet Now that 30 days have passed since the Wall Street Journal‘s publication of Phil Gramm’s and my February 21st, 2025, piece titled “Trump’s Myth of the Trade Deficit,” I share the full text of that piece here beneath the fold. Trump’s Myth of the Trade Deficit Economic growth depends on deregulation, tax cuts and the budget deficit, not on the balance of trade. By Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux Feb. 20, 2025 at 5:05 pm ET […]
March 30 2025 By Kelvyn Alp, https://nzloyal.com/ The notion that viruses are the primary cause of many diseases has been a cornerstone of modern medicine for over a century. However, a growing body of research suggests that this paradigm may be fundamentally flawed. Dr. Mark Bailey’s seminal paper, “A Farewell to Virology,” (2022) and the work of Dr. Sam Bailey, Dr. Andrew Kaufman, and Dr. Tom Cowan, have collectively challenged the conventional wisdom on viruses and vaccines. Their […]
Writes Greg Privette: Hi Lew, I have been thinking about the current move to eliminate pennies. This discussion was in the news several years ago also. I do not remember the exact time frame but it was another period of commodity price inflation. At that time the MSM was discussing elimination of both the penny and the nickel because the value of the metals involved in their production had begun to exceed the face value of the coins. […]
I’ll have a further post next week about the First Amendment and right-to-counsel problems with some of President Trump’s Executive Orders. But in the meantime I thought I’d quote the introduction to the Complaint in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP v. Executive Office of the President, filed by former Solicitor General Paul Clement and his colleagues Erin Murphy and Joseph J. Demott at Clement & Murphy, PLLC: “[T]he right to counsel is the foundation for our […]
Richard Cobden was a British champion of laissez-faire who served in Parliament. While there, he led to successful campaign to repeal the Corn Laws, which led to British free trade.
Tweet … is from page 30 of H. Geoffrey Brennan’s and James M. Buchanan’s 1981 monograph, Monopoly in Money and Inflation: The Case for a Constitution to Discipline Government: Money performs a function of real value. It is not merely a veil. Persons will voluntarily exchange real goods and services for money units, even if they have no intrinsic worth and cannot be directly consumed or utilised. Money is valued for its instrumental usage in facilitating future exchanges. […]