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Travis Fisher Disclaimer: I served as a staff economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2006 to 2013 and as a commissioner adviser from 2018 to 2020. On Monday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a “watershed” new ruling addressing electricity transmission and the need to expand
Politicians, bolstered by economic quackery such as modern monetary theory, believe they face no fiscal constraints as they impose their visions upon us. But costs are real things and economic, reality sooner or later sets in.
The naïve view of American frontier expansion generally leaves out most of the details about how the US's central government—from the early nineteenth century onward—took a very keen interest in how the American frontier was settled, and by whom.
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho discuss a recent op-ed from a trio of octogenarian former Republican senators lamenting the state of the GOP.
Anarchy is not chaos, and the state does not provide order.
Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich
Even though people are leaving California and New York in droves due in large part to their ruinous taxes, the state authorities are tracking these emigrants down and demanding they continue to pay state taxes. Right out of Orwell.