Argentina and the Watching World
Javier Milei has already been sworn in as the new president of Argentina and faces a Promethean challenge, having inherited a country riddled with debt and inflation. Balancing the books is going to be his priority before he can implement
SAMHSA Finally Makes Permanent Its Eased Rules on Access to Buprenorphine and Take-Home Methadone
Jeffrey A. Singer In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic made it more difficult for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) to access daily methadone treatment at federally‐approved opioid treatment programs (OTPs), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
A Texas-American War?
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the growing tensions between the State of Texas and the Biden administration. The two evaluate the situation today, what we should expect in the near future, and
Are Bankruptcies of Some US States in the Future?
Bankruptcy is a developing twenty-first century theme in America. We see bankruptcy in federal government policy and spending, many corporate boardroom decisions, nonprofit and religious groups’ overspending and arrogance, individuals, some United States cities and counties, and the territory of
The Case Against Raiding Private Savings To Prop up Social Security
Adam N. Michel A recent proposal by Andrew Biggs and Alicia Munnell suggests repealing the tax exemption for employer‐sponsored retirement plans and IRAs and using the new revenue to address the majority of Social Security’s long‐term funding gap. The authors’
An Open Letter to Walter E. Block
Breaking up with a person you have known for more than thirty years, with whom you have participated in countless conferences and co-authored a couple of articles, even if only in the somewhat distant past, is nothing done lightly. It
Four Charts That Show Cantillon Effects
Murray Rothbard called Richard Cantillon the “father of modern economics.” While that title is often given to Adam Smith, Rothbard suggested that all the good things in Smith were first discovered by Cantillon or other pre-Smithian economists and that virtually