As Kenosha and Minneapolis Burn, Millions of Americans Buy Guns
It’s increasingly clear to even the average American that if riots come to your neighborhood, you’re on your own. The message received is incrasingly be this: if your plan is …
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Why Economics Cannot Be Understood through Experimentation
In the natural sciences, a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements. There is no equivalent in the discipline of economics. The employment of econometrics and econometric model …
Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History
In the opening monologue of the much-beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the milkman compares life for the Jewish inhabitants of the village Anatevka to the balancing act required …
The True Costs of Zombie Companies and Easy Money
Recent data published by Yardeni Research Inc., Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Institute of International Finance (IIF), and in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) database offers …
Protectionism and “Weak Dollar” Trade Policy
Until disco came back to me at dance clubs and via the great “boogie nights” in the 1990s, I didn’t recall a whole lot from my childhood in the 1970s. …
Why We Need Landlords
A tweet by the widely followed “Existential Comics” account recently made the rounds. It might be easy to dismiss, but with more than 345,000 followers, the account apparently appeals to a …
Colonial Exploitation Did Not Fuel the West’s Economic Development
Some intellectuals, especially on the left, continue to claim that the West’s economic development would have been impossible without the resources extracted unjustly from the developing world, also known as …
How Germany’s Lockdowns Have Fostered Resentment and Violence among the Nation’s Youth
Riots against police have not only occurred in the US. Two events have spurred a public debate in Germany recently. On the night of June 20, police officers in Stuttgart …
America’s Riots Are Just the Latest Version of Marxist “Syndicalism”
The year 2020 is one of the most disrupted times in at least the last half century, maybe longer. Global protests and riots, the covid-19 virus, lockdowns, and police killings …
It’s Time for a Geopolitical Reset
Foreign policy seems to have been placed on the back burner in the Trump era. Domestic issues, generic outrage politics, and the present covid-19 pandemic have sucked the oxygen out …