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Haiti, Jimmy Barbeque, and Uncle Sam

2024-03-21

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2024-03-21

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Milei’s First One Hundred Days: An Assessment

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

Javier Milei, presiding over Argentina, the first libertarian president in history – self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist- has warranted worldwide attention and cast light over libertarianism around the globe. Libertarianism has become more widespread since he entered the political scene. This comes with a definitely positive side and a more dangerous one. The positive side is obviously that libertarianism is more popular than before.The dangerous...

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CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

A recent video by CNN states that lower prices are bad for the United States economy and that consumers must get used to the newer, higher prices. The video goes so far as to say, “We’re never going to pay 2019 prices again.” The video claims that deflation is responsible for a long list of problems including layoffs, high unemployment, and falling incomes. Americans should simply get used to paying more and more each year and be happy about it....

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How State Intervention Fueled Haiti’s Descent into Chaos

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

As the internationally recognized government in Haiti loses its grip on power, the small Caribbean country is descending into violence. The media reports about the situation are quick to, either implicitly or explicitly, place the overall blame for the violence on the absence of state institutions.Situations like this are often used to dismiss libertarians. Before Haiti, it was Somalia that experienced a so-called stateless period in the 1990s and...

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Is the Violence in Haiti a Preview of a Libertarian Society?

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

As the internationally recognized government in Haiti loses its grip on power, the small Caribbean country is descending into violence. The media reports about the situation are quick to, either implicitly or explicitly, place the overall blame for the violence on the absence of state institutions.Situations like this are often used to dismiss libertarians. Before Haiti, it was Somalia that experienced a so-called stateless period in the 1990s and...

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Tapping 401ks to Pay the Bills

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

For lower income folks the landing is already hard. Chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab Liz Ann Sonders posted on X (and reported by Almost Daily Grant’s) that the tally of domestic temporary help employees slipped to a three-plus-year low of 2.748 million down from 3.181 million as of March 2022. The 14% comes in 4th in the category’s downward drops percentage-wise since 1990; to the early 2000s, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid...

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Abundance, Generosity, and the State: An Inquiry into Economic Principles

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

Human action is usually driven by the desire to obtain more for less, and, ideally somethingfor nothing. This has sometimes been called the economic principle. The wish to “get freestuff” pervades all times and places, all sectors of the economy, all ages, and all socialbackgrounds. The very selfishness for which the market economy is often chided is, atbottom, a universal quest to obtain goods for free. Jörg Guido Hülsmann sets out to explorethe...

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The Mises Institute: How Capitalism Can Save America Again

2024-03-20

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2024-03-20

Power & Market offers a contrarian take on world events. We favor individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Connect to Power & Market via Twitter and RSS.Power & Market is published CC4, unless denoted otherwise.

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Reimagining Public Safety – The Case for Privatizing Security

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

Since the conclusion of World War II, each biennial session of Congress has ushered in a staggering 4-6 million words of additional legislation. However, amidst this flood of legal text, the State's focus on expanding regulations and enforcing compliance has overshadowed its fundamental obligation: provision of security—the cornerstone of what progressives call the social contract.This neglect is starkly evident in the steady decline of the...

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The Case for Secession: How Breaking Away Maximizes Liberty

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

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50 years of Democratic Marxism and the Illusion of “Liberty”

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

“One nice day in 1974 Europe woke up and heard that an army revolt was taking place in Portugal and that a large number of career officers turned out to be Marxists of all colors and stripes. We rubbed our eyes: officers in smart uniforms, coming from ‘nice, even noble families, and apparently a bit frivolous, falling prey to Marxism – a despicable XIX century pseudo religion, bankrupt, morally discredited as a murderous political philosophy...

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The Presumption of Innocence Is under Attack

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

One of the most pernicious aspects of civil rights law is that it has abolished the presumption of innocence. Motive and intention are irrelevant in establishing liability for discrimination.Under the concept of disparate impact established in the notorious case of Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), any employment policy or practice that operates to exclude black people “is prohibited, notwithstanding the employer's lack of discriminatory intent.”...

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The Sinking US Economy Means a Weaker Dollar

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

The manufacturing and consumer confidence weaknesses of the United States are deeply concerning, particularly considering that all those allegedly infallible Keynesian policies are being applied intensely.Considering the insanity of deficit spending driven by entitlement programs, the decline in the headline University of Michigan consumer sentiment index in March to 76.5 from 76.9 is even worse than expected. Let us remember that this index was at...

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Blame the Fed for “Shrinkflation”

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

President Biden may have recently made history as the first president to discuss snack chips in the State of the Union message. He used snack chips to illustrate the phenomenon of shrinkflation. Shrinkflation occurs when businesses reduce the amount of goods sold in order to avoid raising prices. President Biden pointed out that businesses hope that, since both the price and the size of the package remain the same, most consumers will not notice...

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How the Democrats Plan to Steal the Election

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

Biden and Trump have clinched the nominations of their parties for President. Everybody is gearing up for a battle between them for the election in November. It’s obvious that Biden is “cognitively impaired.” In blunter language, “brain-dead”. Partisans of Trump are gearing up for a decisive victory. But what if this battle is a sham? What if Biden’s elite gang of neo-con controllers won’t let Biden lose?How can they stop him from losing? Simple....

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The Only Good One Is a Closed One: No Reform of Government Schools

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

Currently, more people seem to be waking up to the state of educational institutions. Complaints of indoctrination in schools by both parents and teachers have increased in public debate in recent years, with various discussions relating to topics such as critical race theory and gender ideology.In addition to political indoctrination, issues such as the drop in reading and math proficiency and policies of prolonged school closures during covid...

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New Video: My Lecture on Secession at Oklahoma State University

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

The Free Enterprise Society at Oklahoma State University was kind enough to recently invite me to lecture on secession at the University on March 13, 2024.  This talk is significantly different from the secession debate at LibertyCon in February because this lecture covers historical, theoretical, and international aspects of secession in much greater detail. The talk is approximately an hour long: Remote video URL...

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Price Inflation Accelerates for Second Month as Biden Blames “Greed”

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest price inflation data, CPI inflation in February accelerated for the second month in a row, and price inflation hasn't proven nearly as transitory as the regime's economists have long predicted. According to the BLS, Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rose 3.2 percent year over year during February, without seasonal adjustment. That’s the thirty-sixth month in a row of inflation well above the...

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Police Dogs Have Abolished Constitutional Due Process

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

The Fifth Amendment declares, “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”Except by dogs.The Supreme Court declared in 1967, “Wherever a man may be, he is entitled to know that he will remain free from unreasonable searches and seizures.”Except by dogs.The Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless unreasonable searches, but canines now provide push-button vetoes for constitutional rights. Last month in...

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State Militias and the Second Amendment: Decentralizing Military Power

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

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