Freedom is “in some way a very ordinary thing, consisting in not being hindered or obstructed in the pursuit of our everyday ends, or watched as we...
The Brazilian state of São Paulo is experiencing a 40% jump in so-called lightning kidnappings. A lightning kidnapping is when a kidnapper detains a victim for a...
German is a remarkably expressive and adaptable language, in which words can be conjoined in ways that give precise expression to feelings or impulses. Everyone is familiar...
New orders for durable goods rose again in August, gaining 1.8 percent, the 15th rise in the last 16 months. Total durable-goods orders are up 16.9 percent...
The federal government’s insatiable appetite for spending has left politicians casting about for untapped revenue sources. Enter President Biden’s tax plan, which contains a death tax on...
Various aspects of cryptocurrency use have been banned in China numerous times over the better part of the last decade. The most stringent barriers yet, though, were...
In a famous passage in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes, “People of the same trade seldom meet...
If you are like me, you regularly interact with people who remain unphased by America’s recent giant strides towards authoritarian socialism, of an economy run largely by,...
Call it the result of the Covid pandemic attitude of “Do something, anything!” That’s alongside the lockdowns, exhortations to wear ever more masks at one time, bizarre...
In my previous column I summarized Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek’s explanation of why full-on socialism is destined to cause mass impoverishment. This explanation does not...