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Minimum Wage Laws Can’t Repeal the Laws of Economics

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2025/01/10

A new study at UC Berkeley claims that California‘s new $20 minimum wage has had no adverse economic effects. If only that were true.

Marx’s Misanthropy

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2025/01/10

Marx is often portrayed as motivated by love of the working class, but, starting from the time he was a university student, he displayed contempt and hatred for the masses he deemed beneath him.

Slash Military Spending: “Defense” Budgets are Bigger...

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2025/01/10

Even though the Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row, defense spending is now 60 percent higher (in real terms) than its old Cold War peak.

Paul Krugman Rides into the Sunset

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2025/01/10

After spending 25 years as a columnist for the New York Times, Paul Krugman is finally retiring from that position—25 years too late, if one wishes to be honest.

Book Review: The Age of Debt Bubbles

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2025/01/10

The world is awash in debt bubbles, but politicians continue to spend, which requires even more central bank intervention—and more bubbles. Max Rangeley has edited The Age of Debt Bubbles, which details the dangers we face and how to stop the current madness.

What To Do about Homelessness

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2025/01/09

A Trick Question: How Many Times Have Nuclear Weapons...

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2025/01/09

The debate over use of nuclear weapon is built upon the assumption that they‘ve only been used twice, both against Japan. However, if we expand the definition of use to how we apply it to other kinds of weapons, then nuclear weapons have been used too many times.

My Zestiest Epigrams of 2024

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2025/01/09

We may be in the New Year, but James Bovard is not ready to put the craziness of 2024 in his rearview mirror. Here are some epigrams he wrote to explain the madness of an election year.

The Dollar Dilemma: Where to from Here

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2025/01/09

We should make every effort to legalize competition to the US dollar and participate in the debate over the fiat dollar, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies. It may sound like only “money,” but it has everything to do with living in a free and prosperous society. Let the competition begin.

Freedom of Speech and Defamation Laws

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2025/01/09

With governments cracking down on free speech and even criminalizing alleged defamation, it is time to take a new look at libel laws. Murray Rothbard provides a clear-headed view of libel law—and why it shouldn‘t exist at all.

Money Supply Growth Accelerates and Hits a 27-Month High

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2025/01/09

In November, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 2.35 percent. That’s a 27-month high and the largest year-over-year increase since September 2022.

Why Homelessness Keeps Growing

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2025/01/09

Ryan and historian Christopher Calton take a look at why homelessness is rising and why politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom are only making it worse.

Wall Street Prospers While Main Street Suffers

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2025/01/09

GDP is a ridiculous way to gauge the strength of the economy. While prices on Wall Street remain robust, trouble lurks on Main Street.

Modern Academe Has Corrupted the Media (And Pretty...

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2025/01/08

American higher education, which is supposed to be about learning truth, has become a bastion of untruth. As higher education loses accountability, it simultaneously is corrupting other institutions, especially journalism and even the business world.

D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center!

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2025/01/08

With each new “crisis” — often directly or indirectly caused by the state itself — government grows and our freedom shrinks.

Politicians Won’t Solve Our Spending Problem Unless...

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2025/01/08

Politicians respond to pressure. If we want them to actually carry out the cuts they claim to stand for it’s up to us to provide that pressure.

Eating the Rich Is Not a Good Idea

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2025/01/08

Progressives have been calling for heavy taxes and other confiscatory policies to be aimed at wealthy Americans. While they didn‘t win the recent presidential election, their toxic message remains.

Rothbard on Jimmy Carter

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2025/01/08

Jimmy Carter’s calls for “sacrifice” were threats to our freedom.

The LA Fires: The "Social Contract" Is Nonsense, and...

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2025/01/08

The real reason we pay taxes: to keep the ruling parasite class living in relative opulence while private sector workers toil to produce all the real wealth.

Year in Review: A Tectonic Shift Has Only Just Begun

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2025/01/08

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