October’s Sobering Jobs Report Adds to Mounting Bad Economic News
The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 150,000 jobs in October, month over month. The unemployment rate rose slightly from 3.8 percent to 3.9 percent over the
Friday Feature: Waldorf School of New Orleans
Colleen Hroncich In the post‐Covid era, many schools cite every child having a computer as a selling point—even as young as first grade sometimes. But the Waldorf School of New Orleans takes a different approach. The school is technology free until eighth grade, according
Making Money While Making Sense of Chaos: Understanding the World of the Traders
Robert Murphy explains how traders make money in a world of uncertainty and diabolical risk. Original Article: Making Money While Making Sense of Chaos: Understanding the World of the Traders
Affective Polarization Is Making Us Dumber
Last month, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University announced that it was laying off almost all of its staff, in spite of having received almost $55 million in funds in the last three years. Critics
The Fake China Threat
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Joseph Solis-Mullen of the Libertarian Institute to discuss his new book, The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger. Joseph debunks some of the most
Lawmakers Seek To Overrule Cops’ Medical Decision and Follow the Advice of Addiction Doctors
Jeffrey A. Singer Last March, I wrote about a recent episode
Blaming the Free Market (Even Where It Doesn’t Exist)
Critics of the free market often aim at the wrong target. They assail the market for “failures” that are actually the result of government intervention in the economy. In this week’s column, I’d like to discuss an example of this
A Nigerian Scholar Evangelizes Austrian Economics
"Econ Bro" (who wishes to remain anonymous) is a Nigerian scholar who realized the limits of his conventional economics training and then discovered the work of Murray Rothbard and other Austrians. He now seeks to help his country and the