What Price Charity?
Is charity a right held by everyone or should charity be confined to private, voluntary action within a free market? David Gordon argues for the latter.
The State Wants to Nationalize Second Mortgages. What Possibly Can Go Wrong?
As if the government has not done enough destruction in the housing market, there now is a scheme to have the government nationalize second mortgages. Given the previous disaster with…
BLS: The Private Sector Lost 192,000 Jobs in Q3 2023
The most recent Business Employment Dynamics (BED) summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the US economy lost 192,000 private-sector jobs during the third quarter of 2023.
Wages, Unemployment, and Inflation
If one does not stop in time the pernicious policy of increasing the quantity of money and fiduciary media, the nation’s currency system collapses entirely.
Farage, Le Pen, and the Rise of the European Right
Ryan and Tho discuss recent European elections, the apparent collapse of the British Conservative Party, and how inflation and immigration are influencing a new generation of voters.
There Is No Such Thing as “Wage Slavery”
Those who push the “wage slave” narrative claim that workers are “forced by hunger” to work ceaselessly without an opportunity to bid up wages. History has shown this is not…
Joe Biden’s Reverse Robin Hood Student Debt Cancellation
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness scheme is really Robin Hood in reverse, transferring wealth from people from lower-income groups to those who are relatively affluent.
Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery
Today these reasons or very similar ones are used by opponents of a different form of abolitionism: the proposal that government as we know it — monopolistic, individually nonconsensual rule…
Growth in Government Jobs Points to Recession
Periods when government jobs grow faster than private jobs are periods with weakening economic conditions. That is the trend right now.