Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hammers, Nails, and War

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The old saying about the guy who only has a hammer and thus sees all problems as nails is a story about psychology. He's let the availab...
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'Nuff Said

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Recommended!

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Friday, October 25, 2024

TGIF: Happy Halloween, Traders!

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It's the Halloween season, the perfect occasion to introduce your young children and grandchildren to the wonders of the market economy....
Friday, October 18, 2024

TGIF: Socialism Is War by Other Means

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Readers may have wondered about a quote I used from Ludwig von Mises recently. In his book  Liberalism Mises distinguished the (classical)...
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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Blaming Freedom

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Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

The Soul of a Socialist

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 From the pen of H. G. Wells (1908) , socialist: War is a collective concern; to turn one’s back upon it, to refuse to consider it as a poss...
Friday, October 11, 2024

TGIF: Full versus Shrunken Liberalism

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Language, like the old common law and other customs, is a decentralized, undesigned, spontaneous institution. It serves humanity well. Nothi...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Interview on "Ideas Having Sex"

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Chris Kaufman interviewed me about my book What Social Animals Owe to Each Other on his podcast  Ideas Having Sex . Listen here or on your...
Friday, October 04, 2024

TGIF: Tariffying Trade-Warmonger Trump

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"The word tariff, properly used, is a beautiful word. One of the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard. It’s music to my ears." —Do...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

TGIF: Who Cares about Inequality?

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What accounts for the preoccupation with income and wealth inequality? We hear about it every day. Isn't our absolute living standard wh...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

TGIF: "We Are All Social Engineers Now"

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I don't know if anyone has actually said, "We are all social engineers now," but someone might as well have. (The variation ...
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Foreign Interference

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People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understan...
Friday, September 13, 2024

TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of c...
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Friday, September 06, 2024

TGIF: What Government Has Wrought

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Imagine two candidates for president, and ask yourself who is more likely to win. Candidate A observes that people are facing generally risi...
Friday, August 30, 2024

TGIF: Doing Good at a Profit

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[P]eople started to believe that the bourgeoisie and its economic activities of trade and innovation were virtuous, or at least tolerable. I...
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Friday, August 23, 2024

TGIF: Back to Barbarism

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Has Kamala Harris inadvertently done free-market advocates a favor? Let's not get too hopeful, but maybe. How so? By pandering to voters...
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Friday, August 16, 2024

TGIF: Gaslighting

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I wonder who's gaslighting us now. Here are some of the major perpetrators: The pundits and pseudo-economists of all tribes who try to c...
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Friday, August 09, 2024

TGIF: Khan Controlling Trade

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Lina Khan is a Washington, D.C., rock star. She is not only President Joe Biden's celebrated chief of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
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Friday, August 02, 2024

TGIF: Democracy as Religion

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During a conversation with someone who loves representative democracy but hates America's current political situation, I pointed out a p...
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