A Guide to Good Money: An Interview with Brendan Brown
Ryan McMaken (RM): There is a lot of talk these days about the US losing its global monetary hegemony. But a lot needs to happen in terms of unwinding the present system before that can happen. At the heart of
Judge Blocks Jawboning?
Will Duffield In Missouri v. Biden, Missouri and Louisiana have sued the Biden administration for pressuring social media platforms to remove controversial and COVID‐skeptical speech. On Independence Day, Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction barring a bevy of executive
The Road to Civil War
[This article is excerpted from a 30,000-word memo to the Volker Fund, 1961. The full memo is available in Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard edited by David Gordon.] The Road to Civil War The road to Civil
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Demarcation of the Limits of State Activity
Not many are aware that one of the greatest works against the encroachment of the state originates from a German thinker. As early as the late eighteenth century, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) raised the question of the general limits of
Stabilizing Debt at 100% Of GDP
Chris Edwards Federal government debt is rising to dangerous and unprecedented levels. Without reforms, federal debt held by the public will grow from 98 percent of gross domestic product this year to 115 percent a decade from now. Compared to the size
Did Tax Cuts Cause Rising Deficits?
Adam N. Michel The current federal budget deficit and the accumulated debt result from Congress spending more than they are willing to raise in taxes. Ultimately, the question of which is more to blame—steady taxes or ballooning spending—will depend on
Harvard and UNC Should Be Treated Differently
Neal McCluskey If we could have only gotten “yes, affirmative action,” or “no, affirmative action,” as the outcomes in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided last week, you should have pulled for the decision the
Demonizing Men with False Data on Sexual Abuse
In today's progressive climate, sexual assault charges are easy to make and hard to refute, even when they are demonstrably false. Original Article: "Demonizing Men with False Data on Sexual Abuse"
Is Microsoft-Activision Opposition a Repetition of Vons-Shopping Bag?
President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appointees have an affinity for returning to an earlier era’s antitrust enforcement, sometimes summarized as a “big is bad” or “neo-Brandeisian” approach. The most famous (or notorious) current example is the FTC’s opposition
Will the Fed Ever Relinquish Its New Powers?: The Fed’s “Cincinnatian Problem”
In times of banking and financial crises, central banks always intervene. This is not a law of nature, but it is an empirical law of central bank behavior. The Federal Reserve was created 110 years ago specifically to address banking