Friday, March 28, 2025

TGIF: "Liberalism and Capitalism"

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Ludwig von Mises's 1927 path-breaking work in political theory speaks to the current generations. In section 5 of his introduction to Li...
Friday, March 21, 2025

TGIF: The Income Stagnation Myth

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Many people, including some free-market advocates, think Americans are materially worse off today than they were in the 1970s. Some subscrib...
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Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

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The Trump administration's abduction and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green-card holder and permanent legal r...
Friday, March 14, 2025

TGIF: Say No to a Sovereign Wealth Fund

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Donald Trump wants to create a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). It's a bad idea if your standard is freedom, free enterprise, and free mark...
Friday, March 07, 2025

TGIF: A New Washington Post?

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If Jeff Bezos is as good as his word, the advocates of full liberty will owe him a standing ovation. As everyone knows by now, Amazon.com fo...
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Thursday, March 06, 2025

Abolish Draft Registration, Mr. Trump

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During Friday's famous White House meeting, VP Vance criticized Ukrainian President Zelensky for his government's abduction of men f...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Let's Not "Run after a Share in the Trouble"

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Of course “principles,” phrases, and catch-words are always invented to bolster up any policy which anybody wants to recommend. So in this c...
Friday, February 28, 2025

TGIF: The Aim of Classical Liberalism

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These are dark days for liberalism. I mean full, across-the-board, laissez-faire free-market, classical liberalism, otherwise known as liber...
Friday, February 21, 2025

TGIF: Free the Housing Market!

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Economist Bryan Caplan has done it again. His latest graphic nonfiction book is Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regula...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

National Greatness

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“A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and free...
Friday, February 14, 2025

TGIF: Emergency! Emergency?

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Look, as a libertarian I think the list of federal entities to be abolished soon should include the: Consumer Financial Protection Board, Fe...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

Abolish Antitrust!

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"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not “...
Friday, February 07, 2025

TGIF: Free Speech Restored?

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Don't get accustomed to me praising Donald Trump, but exceptions will occur now and then. Trump is no principled friend of liberty, not ...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Back on the Bob Murphy Show!

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Friday, January 31, 2025

TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... — U.S. ...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

TGIF: Why McKinley?

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Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densel...
Friday, January 17, 2025

TGIF: The H-1B Controversy

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Does anyone still believe that the market process should set prices, including wages? Apparently not. Take the controversy surrounding the H...
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