Neal McCluskey
President Trump has announced his intentions for the government to set up a sovereign wealth fund. However popular the idea might be, it runs headlong into the realities of economic calculation and would soon deteriorate another government slush fund.
The Southern Reconstruction, while portrayed by progressives as virtuous northerners trying to rebuild the South, was actually an attempt to use state power to direct social and economic life there.
Colleen Hroncich Even before she had children, former public school teacher Jada Robinson often tried looking at her classroom as if she were a parent. “I would always think ahead—if this was my child in this class and my child was in this environment, how would
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Following a one-month suspension in the 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported into the United States from Canada and Mexico, President Trump announced on February 27 that his administration would move forward with these duties. As we explained in
J.B. Say deserves to be remembered, especially by Austrian economists, as a pivotal figure in the history of economic thought. Yet, one finds him discussed very briefly, if at all.
The gold in the US gold reserve is a legacy of the time the US government refused to keep its promise to redeem dollars in gold, and when it reneged on its legal obligations to repay debts in gold.
While historian Walter A. McDougall was not a libertarian, nonetheless he had some Rothbardian insights on Woodrow Wilson and his reckless intervention into World War I. David Gordon notes that while McDougall‘s views on intervention were inconsistent, they still are useful.
Brian Doherty (Note: Below is the Introduction to the new book, Modern Libertarianism, A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in the United States, published by Libertarianism.org, a project of the Cato Institute, and available through Amazon and the Cato Store. The author, Brian Doherty, is a