The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America
In recent years, it seems that the nation’s CEOs and billionaires are increasingly willing to drop the pretense that they are politically neutral entrepreneurs who simply want to go about their business. Last week, for example, more than 100 CEOs met
Walter Block Explains His Entry into Libertarianism and His View of the Future
Walter Block is a giant in the libertarian movement. He explains how he discovered this philosophy and why it will be difficult to advance liberty. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this interviewWalter’s (co-authored) 2019
Shawn Whatley on Deconstructing Medical Socialism
Our guest is Shawn Whatley, a physician in Canada who is the author of the recently released book When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare Is Failing. Dr. Whatley is past-president of the Ontario Medical Association and
The Plan to Save the the Postal Service by Making It Even Worse
There is likely no more loathsome federal bureaucrat than the aptly named Louis DeJoy, who, despite supposedly being a successful businessman, has the surefire winner of a business plan to resurrect the United States Postal Service (USPS)—raise prices and slow service.
Politicians Concerned about Violence Should Start by Ending Their Wars and Their Police State
On April 8, 2020, President Biden addressed the public concerning new executive orders he is planning on putting through. This will be on top of the forty-eight other executive orders that have already come from the man who just last
America’s “Great Men” and the Constitutional Convention
[Chapter 13 of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] From the very beginning of the great emerging struggle over the Constitution the Antifederalist forces suffered from a grave and debilitating problem of leadership. The problem was
If the Nordic Countries Are Socialist, So Are These Three
The Nordic countries draw attention from democratic socialists in America thanks to their high tax rates, strong welfare states, and supposedly tight regulation of enterprise. The final indicator, however, is not exactly true: every single Nordic country except Finland ranks in the
90 million jobs to be generated under Gig Economy
A gig economy can be defined as a market system characterized by non-traditional workplace arrangements where workers work independently on a short-term or temporary basis for one or multiple organizations. It consists of all types of contingent work contracts which
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself
"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself." — FDR, in his first inaugural address. "There is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof
Fedcoin to the Rescue?
It could take several years. But “Fedcoin'' is on its way and soon will be our reality. The question is: Will Fedcoin make our lives easier or just the Fed’s? Original Article: "Fedcoin to the Rescue?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously