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The Tariff Tax Statistic the Trump Fanboys Don’t Want You to Know About
FOX commentator Charles Payne recently repeated Pat Buchanan’s old post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (After this, therefore because of this) about…
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The Federal Reserve Protection Racket
The banking elites who had long wanted to control money and credit succeeded when they created the Fed in 1913.…
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Judicial Tyranny: Tip of the Deep State Sword
Hundreds of Democrat party political hacks who happen to have attended law school for a couple of years have been…
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Gangsters, Terrorists, & Deep State Judicial Tyranny
The primary purpose of the federal judiciary is to make sure that anything the federal government does is almost never,…
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Trump’s False Tariff “Fairness” Argument
President Trump’s argument for starting an international trade war is based on a socialistic-sounding plea for “fairness” and equality. Some…
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Universities: Dysfunctional Incubators of Socialism
Ludwig von Mises called the universities of his day “nurseries of socialism” because of the inevitable socialist bias of all government-funded universities.…
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How FDR’s Attack on the Gold Standard Spawned an Age of Inflation
In his great classic, Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs explained how Franklin Roosevelt’s attacks on the gold standard ushered in “the…
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Constitutional Dictatorship?
When President Trump recently began calling the Ukrainian dictator a dictator elements of both Left and Right in the Washington…
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Trump’s Revival of Lincoln’s “Colonization” Plan
Now that the US and Israeli military have bombed almost all of Gaza into a smoldering ruin and killed tens…
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Happy Worst President’s Day
A 64-year-old woman with deep family roots in Alabama recently said to me that she was taught in Alabama public…
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“Foreign Aid” Enriches the Rich While Impoverishing the Impoverished
If there is anything we have learned from the American welfare state it is that from the very beginning it…
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Commentary
California (Bad) Dreamin’
Amid the horrific fires in Los Angeles that have destroyed hundreds of homes and caused numerous deaths and injuries we…
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How the McKinley Tariff Almost Destroyed the Republican Party
President Trump’s first major speech on economic policy in 2017 was delivered in Lexington, Kentucky near the home of Henry…
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Commentary
Stakeholder Capitalism & The Corporate KPI Cult
In private business “[t]here is no need to limit the discretion of subordinates by any rules or regulations other than…
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Commentary
Deconstructing Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Various states held Thanksgiving holidays decades before Lincoln nationalized the holiday with his October 3, 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. The Proclamation…
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Our History of Protectionist Tariff Train Wrecks
Protectionist tariffs are associated with a long history of economic and social calamities in America. An important reason for this…
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