Mises Wire Fannie and Freddie were long quasi-government corporations that typified the corrupt union between the feds and corporate America. But now it looks like both companies are just full-on government corporations. …
ABSTRACT: Isaiah Berlin made the distinction between negative liberty and positive liberty. Since then, prominent contemporary philosophers including Charles Taylor and Martha Nussbaum have declared negative liberty insufficient or incoherent. …
Political candidates are offering endless government spending and “free stuff” for everyone. But at the same time, governments appear incapable of performing even basic duties like ending street riots. Original …
An increase in the supply of money does not necessarily cause the boom-bust cycle. It is only when more money is created out of nothing that the cycle begins. Original …
Sohrab Ahmari’s new book The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in An Age of Chaos is so disappointing I don’t know where to begin. This may seem to …
The federal government collects a lot more in taxes than the state governments do. And the feds also spend a lot more. This tells us a lot about how the …
Under the Biden administration the US continued escalating the economic and geopolitical frictions with China. At the recent G7 Summit in Carbis Bay, President Biden sought to rally a “united …
As the epochal struggle for Massachusetts began, it was clear that the majority of the people of the state opposed the Constitution. Furthermore, in contrast to Pennsylvania where the Federalists …
The SALT tax deduction allows state and local taxes—like property taxes—to be deducted from federal taxes. To cap it is to pave the way for the federal government to tax …
Murray Rothbard’s seminal 1965 essay “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty” reads every bit as well today as it did 50 years ago. Rothbard defines liberalism and conservatism against …