reason.com: House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft -- https://tinyurl.com/2aqkvg98 -- The Selective Service should be abolished, not made more efficient and equitable. #liberty #news
reason.com: Lawsuit: Biden Administration Rules That Make Dishwashers, Laundry Machines Worse Also Illegal -- https://tinyurl.com/2b2lu6f3 -- The plaintiffs argue that the Department of Energy has no legal authority to impose its own water use limits on energy-consuming home appliances. #liberty #news
mises.org: Saudi Arabia Drifts Away from Washington and the Dollar -- https://tinyurl.com/2b437guh -- Saudi Arabia considers de-dollarization as closer relations with Russia, Iran, and China create new incentives to break with old alliances and deals with Washington. #liberty #news
reason.com: Why Are We Funding Harvard? -- https://tinyurl.com/28wc2psd -- Andrew Heaton fixes Ivy League college funding. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Quest for Lebensraum -- https://tinyurl.com/28nfqkj9 -- In his 2006 book The Wages of Destruction, Columbia University historian Adam Tooze explains Hitler’s policy of seeking lebensraum (living room). However, Ludwig von Mises (whom Tooze ignores) already explained that policy in his 1944 Omnipotent Government. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Best Thing Governments Can Do for Business Is Get Out of the Way -- https://tinyurl.com/2a6r8dh7 -- Various indexes are used to determine the ease of doing business in countries around the world. Not surprisingly, the nations that allow for protection of private property and have economic freedom also are the most prosperous. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Quest for Lebensraum -- https://tinyurl.com/2c3dnkhx -- In his 2006 book The Wages of Destruction, Columbia University historian Adam Tooze explains Hitler’s policy of seeking lebensraum (living room). However, Ludwig von Mises (whom Tooze ignores) already explained that policy in his 1944 Omnipotent Government. #liberty #news
mises.org: The State’s Best-Kept Secret -- https://tinyurl.com/233386p8 -- When it comes to calling out government economic intervention, it is easy to forget that the fundamental reason for the state’s stranglehold on the economy is the government’s monopoly on creating and maintaining money. It is time to end the monopoly. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Menace of Political Show Trials -- https://tinyurl.com/27lfzcrk -- What Isabel Paterson called “the humanitarian with the guillotine” poses a constant danger. #liberty #news
mises.org: How Bad Economic Policies Drive Out Good Entrepreneurs -- https://tinyurl.com/2adbnoqd -- Like bad money driving out good money, government intervention can also create Gresham’s law conditions for entrepreneurs. Using the political process, bad entrepreneurs can get government to regulate entrepreneurial competition out of business. #liberty #news
reason.com: This New York Charter School Is Helping Low-Income Students. But the City Is Holding It Back. -- https://tinyurl.com/25w9sywd -- Government school advocates say competition takes money away from government schools. That is a lie. #liberty #news
reason.com: Glenn Loury: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Capitalism -- https://tinyurl.com/2b4j3559 -- The economist and podcaster discusses his new memoir Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. #liberty #news
mises.org: Price Discovery Equals Short Sales -- https://tinyurl.com/28p4bfst -- Another recent office building sale had Blackstone and its lender agreeing to sell 1740 Broadway for $186 million. Blackstone Inc. bought the building in 2014 for $605 million. #liberty #news
mises.org: There Are Only Downsides to Prolonging the War in Ukraine -- https://tinyurl.com/2bz8depv -- As the war in Ukraine drags on in its third year, Ukraine is bleeding and the future is even more gloomy. Unfortunately, even though it is time to end this conflict, the Biden administration continues to demand this war be fought to the last living Ukrainian. #liberty #news
mises.org: Anti-Liberty Conservatives Want More Theft -- https://tinyurl.com/2ytuwteh -- American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases. #liberty #news
reason.com: Preliminary FBI Data: Crime Steeply Declined in Early 2024 -- https://tinyurl.com/226pnjxd -- While the data is far from perfect, if the overall trend holds, violent crime could be back to pre-COVID levels by the end of the year. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Wants To Exempt Tips From Income Taxes. Why Stop There? -- https://tinyurl.com/2y2u2dhn -- Reducing revenue without identifying offsetting spending cuts means Trump is merely promising to borrow more heavily. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Socialist Road to Destruction amid So-Called Good Intentions -- https://tinyurl.com/23gcnj4b -- Socialists pride themselves on their supposed good intentions even as they fashion policies that create havoc and harm the people socialists claim to be helping. Ludwig von Mises called it destructionism. #liberty #news
mises.org: Welfare Outside of the State -- https://tinyurl.com/2bm8bx8s -- Welfare is usually seen as state-run activity. Yet, as Mises and others have noted, state-sponsored welfare undermines the economy and expands government power. Private charity is the only system that is sustainable and just. #liberty #news
reason.com: Do Supreme Court Justices Have Real Friends? -- https://tinyurl.com/24lhlssy -- A response to Josh. #liberty #news