Why Americans Abandoned Smuggling in Favor of Lobbying and Welfare
The American public’s hunger for liberty has decidedly diminished since colonial times. How has a people who once embraced subversive behavior in the name of liberty become complacent with an intrusive government? The difference between the attitudes of colonial smugglers
Scott Horton on His New Book Enough Already
Scott Horton of antiwar.com and the Libertarian Institute has a new book chronicling 20 years of America's "War on Terror." Enough Already is a compelling history of modern US interventionism and a scathing critique of American foreign policy in the
The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence
It’s hard to be optimistic about a Biden administration with so many hyperinterventionist Obama retreads. Get ready for new wars and "regime change" operations. Original Article: "The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored
Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy
Expect opponents of secession and decentralization to start claiming that neither option is acceptable because any big change to the status quo could endanger American "strength" in foreign policy. Don't listen to them. Original Article: "Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign
Climate Change: Fred Singer’s Classic Critique
Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate. Third edition.by S. Fred Singer with David R. Legates and Anthony R. LupoIndependent Institute, 2020234 pages. During the Senate confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett last October, Kamala Harris criticized Barrett for her
Storming the Capitol or the Historical Legacy of the World’s Oldest Democracy?
The grand US Capitol building in Washington, home to the two chambers of the US Government that make up Congress, has been vulnerable to attacks in history. But the events that unfurled in its premises on 6th January, 2020 have
Is Gold Money?
Is gold money? Many would say so, and a web search returns tens of thousands of additional affirmative responses. If you want to start a fight with a gold bug, take the opposite view. But is it so? To answer the question of
The Drastic Rise of The Bitcoin And What One Can Expect In The Future
Is the Bitcoin’s bull run justified or is it the latest Tulip Mania? The first thought that comes to my mind in the question of prices is the Theory of Demand and Supply. Let us analyze the supply side first. The
WhatsApp- Data Breach
“Terms & Conditions”- we all have encountered these words whenever we have installed any new app or updated the existing one. Usually, we don’t pay any heed to such pop-ups but this time when WhatsApp come forward with its new
GST Collections Reach All-Time High – Has The Economy Revived?
By- Priya DCosta The Goods and Service Tax (GST) introduced in July, 2017, subsumed most erstwhile indirect taxes, barring some like excise on alcoholic liquor. This makes it the largest contributor among indirect taxes to the Government Treasury. GST is a tax