Public Schools Refuse to Open. Give the Taxpayers Their Money Back
In many school districts across the nation, public school teachers still don’t want to go back to work. Private sector workers have long been hard at work in kitchens, at construction sites, and in hardware and grocery stores. Meanwhile, from Seattle,
Fighting Totalitarianism: Rothbard versus Monasticism
I have been quite explicit that what we are now dealing with under the covid response, woke ideology, cancel culture, Big Tech censorship, nonstop media propaganda and gaslighting, an armed and barricaded capitol, a Democratic-controlled government set on giving away
Playing Games with Stocks
The GameStop saga—can we call it an insurrection?—wants easy heroes and villains. Both are available. The populist version of the story goes like this: a few thousand angry gamers, colluding via the now infamous WallStreetBets subreddit, brought at least one powerful
Economics In One Lesson Is Still the Best Layman’s Intro to Economics
A line in a recent National Post news story left me aghast: “Economists are nearly unanimous in their support for the $381-billion deficit Ottawa plans to run in 2021.” One of Canada’s more reasonable newspapers, founded by Conrad Black, published the outlandish notion
Bitcoin, Gold, and the Rush to National Digital Currencies
A money which can be held in only one form, whether digital coin (as in the case of bitcoin), or banknote, or sight deposit, or metallic coin, for example, is crippled. Yet, exclusive digital form has become a huge selling
Even without “Qualified Immunity,” It Won’t Be Easy to Prove When Police Are Abusive
When police ineptly scanned a car's license plate and wrongly decided the car was stolen, they proceeded to force a group of children to the ground at gunpoint. Will this qualify as a rights violation if "qualified immunity" is absent?
Why Rothbard Endures
Instead of succumbing to the zeitgeist, Rothbard moved it. Original Article: "Why Rothbard Endures" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
Taxation through a Rothbardian Lens
All students of economics will sooner or later be confronted with the standard neoclassical analysis of deadweight loss from taxation. The point of this analysis is not to clarify what the government's tax revenues should be used for, but rather
Is Money a Creation of Government?
By some theories such as the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), money originated on account of the government decree. Money according to the MMT is what the State decides it is going to be. Following the ideas of the German economist, Georg
What Rothbard’s Defense of Religion Teaches Us about Resisting the Covid State
Murray Rothbard died more than a quarter century before the outbreak of the Covid mania and tyranny, but if he were alive today, he wouldn’t be surprised to see the most common resistance at an institutional level comes from churches. Last