You Can’t Justify Violence Because You Don’t Like What Someone Says
The optics of the video are chilling: At the August 20 “America First” rally in Laguna Beach, California, a large white […]
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Why It’s Useless for the Federal Reserve to Target Inflation
One of the leading policy guideposts for central banks and many monetary policy proponents nowadays is the idea of “inflation […]
The Private Sector is Coming to Texas’s Rescue
Because of a hurricane of claims of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the private sector in Texas […]
Amazon Kills the Fed’s Inflation Target
Amazon’s purchase of high-end grocery retailer Whole Foods was approved last week. That the federal government had any role at […]
Dark Projects (Full Measure w/ @SharylAttkisson)
Source Full Measure News Twitter @SharylAttkisson Twitter @FullMeasureNews Follow 2VNews on Twitter The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA […]
Child Labor Was Wiped Out by Markets, Not Government
In 1938 the US government passed the Fair Labor Standards Act mandating a forty hour work week, establishing a minimum […]
Inequality Is a Side Effect of Progress
“Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January’s MasterCard bill.” – P.J. O’Rourke Completed in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge took fourteen […]
Afghanistan and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
For a few blissful moments on Monday afternoon, there was peace in this country. No matter your race, religion, or […]
Dear Federal Government, Stop Trying to Fix the Infrastructure
I’ve called for the abolition of the Department of Transportation. On more than one occasion. So I was very excited […]
The Real Scandal Is the EPA’s Diesel Policy, Not Volkswagen
You’ve probably heard about the Volkswagen emissions scandal. The official story is that engineers at VW faked emissions test results […]
The Great Recession, 10 Years Later
What we now know was one of the worst post-World War II economic and financial crises began about ten years […]
It’s Literally Insane to Unleash Government against Opiates
This week, Donald Trump focused all his energy on addressing the opiate crisis. Calling for enhanced “law and order” tactics, […]
The Psychological Appeal of Blockchain Technology
In the following paragraphs I will attempt to explain my quick observations of how current relational templates are mirrored by […]
The Soviets Tried to Run an Economy without Market Prices
In a recent Free Thoughts podcast, Cato scholar Andrei Illarionov, former economic advisor of Vladimir Putin, brought up a peculiar […]
What is the Deep State?
Buzzwords come and buzzwords go. Lately, a trending buzzword – or, I guess, buzz phrase – among the politically inclined […]
The Market Is More Unanimous Than Democracy
The quotation of the day is from page 270 of my late Nobel laureate colleague Jim Buchanan‘s insightful and deep 1984 […]