Daily Articles

Tariff Walls and Trade Wars Equal Government Planning

by Richard M. Ebeling May 21, 2018

Trade wars are dangerous and harmful policies for governments to pursue. They hurt consumers due to higher prices and fewer alternatives; they reduce competitive opportunities for producers by restricting markets; and they narrow the benefits that come from a market-based system of division of labor in which each participant tends to devote his or her efforts to supplying the ...

Is It Possible to Be Underpaid?

by Laurence M. Vance May 17, 2018

Are teachers and interns underpaid? Some people apparently think so. On February 22, the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association called for teachers across West Virginia to strike, mainly because of low teacher pay and rising health-insurance costs. Teacher pay in West Virginia ranks near the bottom among the ...

The Libertarian Angle: School Vouchers Versus Educational Liberty (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 16, 2018

Are vouchers the answer for introducing market forces into public education, or is a free market in education the libertarian answer? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

The Age of Petty Tyrannies

by John W. Whitehead May 15, 2018

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. ...

Monetary Fallacies and Inflationary Bubbles

by Richard M. Ebeling May 14, 2018

Looking to the next few years ahead, is America and the world going to continue riding a wave of economic growth, improving standards of living, falling and lower unemployment, and technological changes that will continue to raise the quality and variety of life? Or will this turn out to be, at least partly, an artificial economic boom that will ...

We’re All Trespassers Now in the Face of the Government’s Land Grabs

by John W. Whitehead May 9, 2018

“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.” — John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States We have no real property rights. Think about it. That house you live in, the car you drive, the small (or not so small) acreage of land that has been passed down ...

The Libertarian Angle: Marx’s 200th Birthday (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 8, 2018

Some are celebrating the the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, author of Das Kapital. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling tell you why it is no reason to celebrate. Go to the podcast.

Karl Marx and Marxism at Two Hundred

by Richard M. Ebeling May 7, 2018

German translation Greek translation A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist central planning was born in Trier, Germany. Looking ...

Dial T for Tyranny

by John W. Whitehead May 4, 2018

“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become ...

The People Who Really Deserve a Trump Pardon

by Laurence M. Vance May 3, 2018

President Trump has issued three presidential pardons in the fifteen months he has been in office. According to Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, the president “shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment.” According to the case of Ex ...

The Libertarian Angle: Interventionism and the Welfare-Warfare State (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 2, 2018

After our sold-out conference in Charleston, Jacob and Richard address our current foreign policy that violates libertarian principles and creates more enemies than it defeats. Go to the podcast.

Why Kennedy Had to Be Removed

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2018

The current, ongoing brouhaha over Russia helps to show explain why the U.S. national-security establishment removed President John F. Kennedy from office in the regime-change operation that took place on November 22, 1963. Yes, I know the official version that we are all expected to adhere to: that it is just inconceivable that the U.S. national-security establishment would initiate one ...