A Dark Side of Inflation
When the Federal Reserve inflates the money supply, the resulting debasement of people’s money is reflected in the higher prices that people are paying for things they need or want. …
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Edwin Cannan: An Economist Who Protested against Big Government
One hundred years ago, the countries of Europe were trying to recover from the consequences of the First World War. It was not only the cost in human life (estimated …
More Government Debt as Far as the Fiscal Eye Can See
For the last two years, the federal government has been legally at liberty to borrow any amount of money necessary to cover its deficit spending under the Bipartisan Budget …
Our Civil Liberties Conference
Mark your calendars for what will undoubtedly be one of the best, most important, and timeliest conferences in the 31-year history of The Future of Freedom Foundation. The conference, titled …
Libertarian Reform Measures Do Not Advance Liberty
Ever since I discovered libertarianism, there has been a faction within the libertarian movement that has favored and promoted reform of the welfare-warfare state way of life under which we …
What’s Decent About Torture, Assassination, and Secret Surveillance?
In a Los Angeles Times editorial predictably hyping up the extreme danger to “national security” arising from the January 6 Capitol protests, the Times quotes Capitol police officer Harry Dunn …
Authoritarians Drunk on Power
The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to …
Biden’s Rescue Act Targets Americans’ Freedoms
Since the 1800s, surly Americans have derided politicians for spending tax dollars “like drunken sailors.” Until recently, that was considered a grave character fault. But Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan …
Wrong Lessons from the Afghanistan Debacle and Defeat
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan. Instead, they are coming up with all sorts of reasons as to why their …
The Seven Deadly Sins of Government
What do King Solomon, Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great), Dante Alighieri, and Mohandas Gandhi have to do with modern governments? Nothing, really, except that their emphasis on seven deadly …