Higher education has become unaffordable and its curriculums hopelessly politicized. We should remember that all of this is a result of programs developed more than a half-century ago to make higher education more accessible.
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Trump to "soften the blow" of the tariffs he imposed
News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC.
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US Navy accidentally dumps $60mln fighter jet into...
US Navy loses $60 million fighter jet after it fell off aircraft carrier. This brings the total cost of lost aircraft in Yemen up to $270 million since Trump took over.
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Liberals win in Canadian election. See results here.
The Liberal Party, led by new Prime Minister Mark Carney, is projected to form a minority government in a dramatic political comeback, defeating the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre.
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Just a reminder that the new PM of Canada used to be...
The welfare state is supposed to signal the existence of the “compassionate” society that provides care for all. However, this “compassion” has resulted in the proliferation of social pathologies that undermine civilization itself.
Foreign direct aid has failed to alleviate worldwide poverty. Nations with secure property rights and the institutions that foster them have prospered.
Carl Menger wrote, “All things are subject to the law of cause and effect.” Unfortunately, modern academic economists all too often confuse correlation of economic phenomena with causality.
The gold price kissed $3,500 last week before backing off. The late Burt Blumert once told me “in tough times fortunes change hands.” For some, that time has come.
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The Dominican Republic is still deporting Haitian...
US airstrikes on Yemen killed 95 civilians and injured 192 last week. Very little US trade requires the Suez Canal, so this is about subsidizing the State of Israel.
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Trump plans to bail out farmers from the effects of...
62% think tariffs will be a net liability in the long run. Even more think it will be costly in the short run. They're right because tariff hikes are just tax increases on Americans.
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Don't Like Tariffs on Food? Just Make Do with Less,...
They‘re at it again, except this time it‘s to tell the plebs to “just deal with it” when it comes to import taxes (i.e., “tariffs”) that Americans will have to pay on foods sourced from places outside the United States.
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Our Enemy, The Bureaucracy: Mises Circle in Phoenix
Tom DiLorenzo, Tom Woods, and Robert Malone meet in Phoenix to expose how state power, psychological operations, and public health "experts" use bureaucracy as both a weapon and a weakness.