The Border Crisis Is the Latest Example of Government “Efficiency”
By nearly any standard, the US government’s administration of border control is a disaster. If the goal is to limit border crossings, things are a mess. If the goal is to facilitate more legal immigration, things are a mess. If the
Central Planning by Business Is Not the Same as Central Planning by Government
Advocates of capitalism say: “CENTRAL PLANING DOESN’T WORK!” Also advocates of capitalism: “CORPORATIONS DO WORK!” Sensible socialist: “Uhhh … aren’t corporations all centrally planned?” This is a relatively new, and even imaginative critique of markets which has recently been circulating the meme-o-sphere. It looks
The fading American Dream : Rise in hate crime against Asian Americans
In San Francisco, an 84 year-old Asian man died of brain hemorrhageafter being violently shoved to the ground by a teenager. In Georgia, a man on a shooting spree ended up killing 8 women, 6 of them were Asian. In Washington D.C.,
Money Isn’t Neutral: Why Economic Stabilization Schemes Are Counterproductive
For most commentators economic stability refers to an absence of excessive fluctuations in key economic data such as real gross domestic product (GDP) and the consumer price index (CPI). An economy with constant output growth and low and stable price inflation
The Western Lands and Foreign Policy in the Early Republic
[Part II of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] The Old Northwest With the cession of the claims of Virginia and other states to the lands of the Old Northwest, and the passage of its Ordinance of
Opposition Builds to the F-35 Program’s Runaway Costs
Earlier this month, House Armed Services Committee chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) said it’s time to "cut our losses" on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and added, "I want to stop throwing money down that particular rathole." Smith has no problem with spending money
Yousif Almoayyed: Apply Economic Thinking To Better Manage Your Technology Projects
Does economic knowledge help you manage complex IT projects? Yousif Almoayyed thinks it does. He combines management knowledge with careful project management and principled economic thinking. Economic thinking utilizes foundational principles to integrate knowledge management and business task management for all
The Business of Bilateralism
Bilateralism is the practice of political, economic, or cultural association between two sovereign countries. It is distinct with unilateralism or multilateralism, which is activity by a single country or jointly by multiple country, respectively. When countries identify one another as
Victim-Centered Justice Throws Black Men under the Bus
Social justice warriors accuse the police of systemic racism. At the same time, they push revolutionary changes in police procedure that cement extreme bias into the very structure of law enforcement—a bias that will fall heavily upon black men. It
The Anti-imperialism of Mises
The death of Ludwig von Mises has brought forth numerous essays on his contribution to economics. It is equally in order to discuss his work in the historical sciences, as he called them. Having had the honor and pleasure of