Daily Articles

Tariff Wars and the Fallacy of the Balance of Trade

by Richard M. Ebeling June 25, 2018

The world may be on the brink of a series of trade wars between the United States and both the European Union and China. All the parties say they don’t want this — though President has asserted that trade wars are not a problem and easy to win. That remains to be seen! It may have become a cliché, but ...

We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State

by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2018

“We’re run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy… We all live in a little Village. ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Licensure Racket (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 19, 2018

FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss how government licensing violates the non-aggression principle and distorts the market. Go to the podcast.

An “Identity Politics” Victory Would Mean the End of Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling June 18, 2018

America started a “great experiment” in human history, that being the ideas of individual freedom and limited government. All of history before this assumed that the individual was subservient to the tribe, and governments had nearly absolute power over people in the form of ruling kings and princes. Today, again, there are counter-revolutions against this great experiment in human liberty. ...

Libertarian Angle: Enslavement Through Conscription

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 14, 2018

FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the immorality of conscription.

Caging Children, Separating Families: Has the War on Immigration Gone Too Far?

by John W. Whitehead June 13, 2018

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand. This ...

The Best Answer to Trump’s Tariffs: Free Trade

by Richard M. Ebeling June 11, 2018

In the Bible it says, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone . . .” It also has been said that the one who strikes the second blow starts any fight. If the world is to avoid trade wars due to tariffs being imposed by the Trump Administration, both the United States and ...

There Is No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for the President

by John W. Whitehead June 7, 2018

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.“—Richard Nixon Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card just for being president. According to Trump’s Twitter feed, he believes that he has an absolute right to pardon himself of any crimes for which he might be ...

A Divergent Convergence of Epic Proportions

by Laurence M. Vance June 6, 2018

Social Security is in dire straits. Payroll tax increases and benefit cuts are on the horizon. According to the latest annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees (“The 2017 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds”), Social Security’s combined trust funds face ...

The Libertarian Angle: Opioids and the Drug War (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 5, 2018

If you own yourself, shouldn't you be free to ingest what you wish? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the immorality of the drug war. Go to the podcast.

Free Market Capitalism as the Antidote to the World’s Ills

by Richard M. Ebeling June 4, 2018

Greek In following the daily news events both in the United States and around the rest of the world, it is easy to get lost in the detail and not step back once and awhile and remind ourselves what the really important issues are. Under the anxiety of a possible nuclear war in Korea, actual ...

Legalize Drugs — All Drugs

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2018

In 1972, Newsweek published what must have been considered by many readers to be a shocking commentary on the drug war by libertarian Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman. Entitled “Prohibition and Drugs,” Friedman’s article called for the legalization of drugs — all drugs. Friedman made two primary libertarian arguments in favor of drug legalization: freedom and practicality. He wrote, On ethical ...