This Christmas, Let’s Celebrate a Different Scrooge: Scrooge McDuck
There is a growing genre of literature that can best be described as apologias for Ebenezer, the aim of which is to show that Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character of …
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The Christmas Truce of World War I
The Christmas truce, which occurred primarily between the British and German soldiers along the Western front in December 1914, is an event the official histories of the “Great War” leave …
The Wealth Redistribution Scam that Is “Inflation”
The world over people are told that central banks pursue “price stability” by making sure that consumer goods prices do not rise by more than 2 percent per annum. This …
Abolish the Office of the First Lady
It’s almost Christmas time again, and that means its time for White House politicians and staff to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Christmas decorations and events for the …
The American Empire
[The following is a condensation of Garet Garrett’s pamphlet The Rise of Empire, published in 1952, and included in his collection The People’s Pottage (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1953).] We …
How Today’s Central Bankers Threaten Civilization
When I was asked to write an article about the impact of negative interest rates and negative yielding bonds, I thought it was a chance to look at the topic …
Chile Is in Danger of Becoming Just Another Crisis-Ridden Latin American Country
Although we Latin Americans thought Chile was immune to populism, small protests have grown into the largest ones since the nation’s re-democratization in the 90s. Initially, the protestors were groups …
Economics and the Revolt against Reason
The Revolt Against Reason It is true that some philosophers were ready to overrate the power of human reason. They believed that man can discover by ratiocination the final causes …
Three Arguments Debunking Marx’s Labor Theory of Value
Though widely dispensed with in the field of economics, the notion of “wage slavery” is still common among progressives and socialists of many stripes. It is not uncommon, especially on …
Elizabeth Warren Shouldn’t Be So Proud that Her Big Plans Are Already “Paid For”
When Elizabeth Warren performs verbal, accounting, and economic distortions to claim that her cornucopia of government expansion plans will be paid for almost without any cost to anyone not tagged …