reason.com: A Reminder Of What Will Happen When The Filibuster Is Gone -- https://tinyurl.com/24qcc2o4 -- Harris says the quiet part out loud. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Fed Cut the Interest Rate to Bail Out the Treasury -- https://tinyurl.com/2yen96bk -- Lowering rates is a tool to rescue the government. If you make it easy for governments to borrow, they will gladly do it and continue printing currency. #liberty #news
mises.org: Covid Czar Scandal Is Reminder of Boundless Idiocy and Hypocrisy of the Covid Regime -- https://tinyurl.com/26tpxgw8 -- Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened. As more Covid authoritarianism comes to light, we are reminded the government leadership itself during Covid was perverted. #liberty #news
reason.com: State Constitution Tool -- https://tinyurl.com/2a4twm9a -- A great free resource for lawyers, judges, academics, and students doing cross-state constitutional law research. #liberty #news
reason.com: Commerce Department Bans Chinese Car Components -- https://tinyurl.com/2adfumqx -- Commerce Secretary Raimondo insists the rule is a strictly national security action. #liberty #news
reason.com: Most Chinese E.V. Firms Are Unprofitable. Local Governments Keep Propping Them Up Anyway. -- https://tinyurl.com/279jlgnl -- China has dominated the market—thanks in part to a robust industrial policy. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Battle of the Confederate Monuments -- https://tinyurl.com/2943ckoc -- In the past four years, a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy have been torn down or removed. As we have seen before, however, the activism behind this movement will not stop with just taking down Confederate symbols. #liberty #news
mises.org: Does Technical Knowledge by Itself Drive Economic Growth? -- https://tinyurl.com/2adb2367 -- Ask most people why our economy is advanced, and they will likely will answer, “Technology.” Yet, technical knowledge is meaningless without capital development, and capital development is impossible without real savings. #liberty #news
mises.org: Israel’s Waging Genocide, Not War -- https://tinyurl.com/22vfjodc -- If it is portrayed as a war crime; genocide—the methodical, malicious murder of the many—can be dismissed as incidental to battle; a mere case of, “Oops, bad things happen in war.” #liberty #news
reason.com: Congress Fails the Budget Test, Again -- https://tinyurl.com/24x52kwl -- Despite promises to pass orderly budgets, the House GOP is poised to approve yet another stopgap spending measure. #liberty #news
mises.org: Henri Bergson: The Philosopher of Life and Creative Evolution -- https://tinyurl.com/23tdpzry -- While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own collectivist ideologies. #liberty #news
mises.org: Past Tense—The Homeless Problem in Star Trek DS9 -- https://tinyurl.com/28vusln7 -- When discussing the homeless situation in the US, Star Trek does not usually come to mind. However, one of the episodes, but one episode from about three decades ago was both insightful and prophetic in presenting what would be homelessness in San Francisco. #liberty #news
reason.com: Deregulation Can Fix the Housing Crunch -- https://tinyurl.com/276zx43e -- Increasing the supply of housing requires looser rules and fewer bureaucratic delays. #liberty #news
reason.com: Free Speech Unmuted: I Know It When I See It: Free Speech and Obscenity Laws -- https://tinyurl.com/2ab9jxap -- Jane Bambauer and I discuss the various rules the Court applies in obscenity cases and the forthcoming Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton decision, which deals with obscene-as-to-minors material (not to be confused with child pornography). Fun fact: Associate Justice Potter Stewart, who wrote the I know it when I see it line in a 1964… #liberty #news
mises.org: Bringing the Truth -- https://tinyurl.com/2ysbgbtk -- The best people in the world support the Mises Institute. Will you join them? #liberty #news
mises.org: Three Cheers for Mises -- https://tinyurl.com/27o3utup -- This Sunday marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises, and all donations will be doubled in celebration. #liberty #news
mises.org: Donate $5, Get Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State book! -- https://tinyurl.com/2888quv5 -- Join us and get a free copy of Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard. #liberty #news
reason.com: Progress on the End Kidney Deaths Act -- https://tinyurl.com/2dogxexh -- This legislation could save many lives by giving tax credits to kidney donors. But it would not be as good as full legalization of organ sales. #liberty #news
mises.org: Tariffs, Protectionism, and Why Borders Matter -- https://tinyurl.com/27uq7krv -- The political zeitgeist is to embrace protectionism, leading some who support free trade to embrace open borders. However, as Murray Rothbard explained, people and societies are complex entities and what may work for trade does not work for open immigration. #liberty #news
mises.org: Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes Are Wrong! -- https://tinyurl.com/2dl5fshh -- The hatred and disparagement of gold as money and the gold standard has become standard dogma of the modern State. #liberty #news