No exceptions, please!
While defenders of democracy claim to hold fealty to the U.S. Constitution, they are quick to jettison it when they claim that democracy itself is in peril. David Gordon disagrees.
What Project 2025 says about the Fed
Surprisingly, Project 2025 blames the Fed for exacerbating the cycle of booms and busts, inflating away the value of the dollar, enabling exorbitant deficit spending.
Kamala’s Palace Coup
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho discuss America’s new chapter of late-stage Soviet politics.
Student loans are the ‘fudge factor’ that allows institutional profiteering
The student loan program not only is saddling young people with huge debts, but it also encourages colleges and universities to charge higher tuition. When President Obama nationalized the program,…
Wall Street’s latest poison: Leveraged EFTs
Just as Wall Street created products to participate in the housing boom (subprime mortgages, mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives), the industry now has triple leveraged ETFs to satisfy the public’s…
Biden’s parting deluge of deceit deserves damning
The president’s latest episode of “transparency” was the same deceitful behavior that has characterized his administration for the past four years. This time, it is employing deceit to “save democracy.”
Have we been living in an MMT world since 2008?
What we may call the “spending illusion” is perhaps the gravest error in the history of economic thought and has been deeply embedded in economics since the early twentieth century.
A ‘smart city’ is a city plagued by high taxes and central planning
When municipalities embrace new technologies, people often refer to them as “smart cities.” However, all too often these technological “revenue enhancers” are nothing more than shakedowns of local citizens.