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There will be life after Trump one way or another, but in the long run, it seems as though the ruling party always wins.

Original Article: After Trump, Then What?

In 2022, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used political favors and government grants to maneuver thousands of workers into jobs producing electric trucks. But consumers aren’t interested.

Original Article: How Governor Whitmer Doomed Detroit Autoworkers

Javier Milei is trying to undo the damage created by nearly a century of socialism in Argentina. Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek were good teachers.

Original Article: Javier Milei Understands the Road to Serfdom

School choice would seem to have benefits, but as Thomas Sowell says: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Enthusiastic “school choice” proponents forget that with government money comes government control.

Original Article: The Double-Edged Sword of School Choice

The “One-China” policy assumes Taiwan to be a runaway province. The people of Taiwan, however, see their country as sovereign, and their reasons have merit.

Original Article: Is Taiwan a De Facto Sovereign Nation or a Province of the PRC?

Another Pentagon audit, another massive failure. But the Pentagon's problems are not just simple accounting. They reflect the reality of an unaccountable rogue empire that tries to prop up the US empire.

Original Article: What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not Much

Some economists believe that the balance of payments is what determines currency exchange rates. In fact, exchange rates are always about the purchasing power of some currencies relative to others.

Original Article: Does the Balance of Payments Determine Exchange Rates?

While South Africa’s political authorities pursue genocide accusations against other countries, those same leaders are destroying the nation’s economy and basic infrastructure. This is a failed state.

Original Article: The "New" South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don't Look for Things to Improve

While US taxpayers pay billions for military missions around the world in the name of “keeping us safe,” the federal government fails to keep residents of the nation’s capital safe from violent crime.

Original Article: Forget Being the World's Policeman; the Federal Government Can't Even Keep DC Safe

Social Security is headed for reduced benefits, and no amount of political rhetoric or even tax increases will solve that problem. The numbers do not lie.

Original Article: Social Insecurity: It’s Not Wrong to be Concerned about Facts

When Adam Smith and the English classicals promoted division of labor as the most important ingredient in economic development, it took Carl Menger and his Austrian successors to point out that error and promote the proper economic theory of production.

Original Article: How Carl Menger and the Austrians Helped to Steer Economic Theory in the Right Direction

In the wake of the financial meltdown fifteen years ago, some countries placed strict limits on piling on public debt. Despite cries that this harms investment opportunities, the ”debt brakes” have worked well.

Original Article: Fiscal Rules Do Not Undermine Investment, But Government Profligacy Does

Progressives argue that free markets stand in the way of economic and racial equality. In fact, free markets are the only vehicle that can help make people more equal.

Original Article: Legacies of Injustice and Racial Inequality

Political and economic elites predicted a doomsday scenario when Trump was elected in 2016, but the reality of his presidency didn’t come close to matching the apocalyptic rhetoric that accompanied it.

Original Article: Understanding the Trump Phenomenon: It's Not What the Elites Think

Block’s call for total war and the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza is the complete and uninhibited rejection and renunciation of the nonaggression principle that constitutes one of the very cornerstones of the Rothbardian system.

Original Article: An Open Letter to Walter E. Block

So-called climate change is really an excuse for government to do what it does worst: intervene in our economic affairs. While government efforts will not cool the planet, they will make life more difficult for the planet’s inhabitants.

Original Article: Climate Deniers Deny Socialism. That's Why the Regime Hates Them.

Whenever governing elites create a new crisis, they insist that “we're all in this together.” It’s time to ignore their lies altogether.

Original Article: Are We Really All in This Together?

Congressional Democrats are trying to intervene in a complex and varied market they know little about but that consumers navigate without need of help. This will not end well.

Original Article: Washington’s Planned Theft of Credit Card Benefits

Modern international law tends to grant a right to “remedial self-determination” only in extreme cases. Unfortunately, this position accepts that states ought to be free to violate human rights so long as the abuses fall short of war crimes and genocide. 

Original Article: A Short History of the Right to Self-Determination

Under Obama and Biden, the banking sector has been weaponized against industries American leftists don't like.  The Obama administration acted as if its regulatory targets did not deserve due process, and the program ravaged far and wide.

Original Article: Biden and Forgotten Federal Financial Tyranny