There are no “good wars,” rather, there are wars with varying degrees of destructiveness. The American War Between the States was especially destructive, and the scars have not fully healed 160 years after it ended.
Dominik Lett Medicaid, a joint state and federal medical care program, already costs more than national defense. And despite $1.1 trillion in improper payments over the past decade, Congress is sheepish about reforming it. Without major changes, Medicaid will accelerate the growth of the deficit, propelling
Chris Edwards On May 11, 60 Minutes examined the huge fraud problem in federal spending programs. The piece stressed the growing losses from large-scale looting of benefit and subsidy programs by criminal gangs based both here and abroad. The federal government is a vast transfer machine. It
A free market economy does not generate jobs or money. Instead, it creates wealth through exchange and production. Government intervention, contrary to what mainstream economists believe, does not enhance wealth, but instead destroys it.
As the progressive left and the anti-trade right merge their arguments, the current political atmosphere is quickly turning into a witch hunt. Unfortunately, we know that these situations don't end well.
Extolling peace has characterized the classical liberal movement from the eighteenth century, at least from Turgot, on through the nineteenth century to Ludwig von Mises.
Any government deploying this so-called policy tool is trespassing upon property rights. As a result, human beings are in a word: dehumanized.
Bob Murphy digs into the latest GDP numbers, questions Peter St. Onge’s optimistic spin, and shows what the data really says about tariffs, trade, and recession fears.