The Libertarian Angle: End the Fed by Future of Freedom Foundation July 31, 2018 What is a fiat currency and how does the state benefit from controlling the money supply? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
The Most Unnecessary Federal Spending by Laurence M. Vance July 31, 2018 The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 (Oct. 1, 2019–Sept. 30, 2020), which directs how federal funds should be used for national defense, has now passed both the U.S. House and Senate — as it has every year since 1961. Officially titled the “John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019,”
Steve Horwitz Is Wrong, On Both Liberty and Methodology by Jacob G. Hornberger July 30, 2018 AUTHOR’S NOTE: On July 13, the Cato Institute published on its website libertarianism.org an article entitled “The Errors of Nostalgi-tarianism” by Steve Horwitz, a libertarian economics professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Horwitz’s article was a critique of a fundraising letter that I recently sent to supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation requesting help with upgrading ...
The JFK Assassination, Episode 5 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 27, 2018 In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.
Libertarianism in One Easy Lesson by Scott McPherson July 26, 2018 It would be hard to imagine a larger deficiency in modern American society than the one we find in the ability of individual citizens to understand their proper relationship with government, and each other. Beneath the endless cacophony of varying special-interest groups lies a fundamental misunderstanding of the role we each play in a free society, and the role ...
The Deep State Is Real and Trump Is Its Latest Tool by John W. Whitehead July 26, 2018 “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt There are those who would have you believe that President Trump is an unwitting victim of the Deep State. And then there are those who insist that the Deep State is a ...
The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Tariff Welfare Plan for Farmers (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation July 25, 2018 As As Ludwig von Mises pointed out, one state intervention often leads to another. Donald Trump instituted trade tariffs and is now cutting checks to those whom the tariffs have hurt. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
Some Confusions of Language in Economic Thought by Richard M. Ebeling July 24, 2018 Fifty years ago, in 1968, Austrian (and Austrian school) economist Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph called The Confusion of Language in Political Thought. Hayek argued that the words we use and the meanings we give to them greatly influence how we think about the political system and the wider social order in which we live. ...
Ron Paul – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy by Ron Paul July 23, 2018 This speech was presented at a conference entitled "Non-interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy" in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29. 2018. The event was co-sponsored by The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity and The Future of Freedom Foundation. Our country is enmeshed in permanent, ongoing foreign wars and interventions. The results of foreign ...
The JFK Assassination, Episode 4 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2018 In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.
Economic Straight Talk: Trade Wars and the Balance of Trade Fallacy by Richard M. Ebeling July 19, 2018 Economic Straight Talk unmasks the economic fallacies behind many government policies, and explains the benefits from economic freedom — greater individual liberty that increases people’s freedom of choice and widens the free market competition that makes a better world for all of us.
The Libertarian Angle: Eminent Domain (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation July 18, 2018 One of the basic functions of a government is the defense of property. How does eminent domain fit within this role? Is there any place in a free society for eminent domain? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.