Faced with a decrease in the supply of crude oil—due to state intervention—the price increases to discourage consumption while simultaneously promoting increased production and/or logistics.
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The Next Food Pyramid: Lab-Grown Meat and the New...
The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to government funding of “lab-grown meat,” government aids the activists who are making our lives worse.
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Rothbard Was Right: Libertarians Must Never Warm to...
A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish self-described libertarians claim to support.
President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset.
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Trump says he's mulling a bailout for UAE amid Iran...
The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy.
A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish self-described libertarians claim to support.
President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset.
The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy.
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Luke Gromen on the Strait of Hormuz and Supply Chain...
Bob sits down with macro researcher Luke Gromen of Forest for the Trees to discuss the cascading supply chain consequences of a closed Strait of Hormuz.
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Peaceful Nationalism as a Foundation for Economic...
Ludwig von Mises Mises argues in Nation, State, and Economy that nationalism is compatible with economic and political liberty if it is peaceful, based on self-determination as an individual right.
According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “ no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax.
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Raico, Ekirch, and the Tragedy of American Militarism
In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the work of historian Arthur Ekirch for answers.
Ludwig von Mises Mises argues in Nation, State, and Economy that nationalism is compatible with economic and political liberty if it is peaceful, based on self-determination as an individual right.
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God Bless Captain Vere: When Constitutional Duty...
With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it is time for people to learn the lesson of Captain Vere.