reason.com: Hell Out West -- https://tinyurl.com/24ta9emk -- Plus: BlackRock and real estate, SCOTUS and Trump, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Money Supply Growth Accelerates and Hits a 27-Month High -- https://tinyurl.com/2y29u2dj -- In November, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 2.35 percent. That’s a 27-month high and the largest year-over-year increase since September 2022. #liberty #news
mises.org: My Zestiest Epigrams of 2024 -- https://tinyurl.com/2yfxr2p6 -- We may be in the New Year, but James Bovard is not ready to put the craziness of 2024 in his rearview mirror. Here are some epigrams he wrote to explain the madness of an election year. #liberty #news
reason.com: Will 2025 Be the Year of U.S. Fiscal Sanity? -- https://tinyurl.com/26978pg5 -- With inflation risks persisting and entitlement spending surging, the situation cannot be ignored. But we never should have gotten to this point to begin with. #liberty #news
reason.com: An Urgent Meeting of the Fact-Check Legion of Doom -- https://tinyurl.com/2xk68k3j -- Mark Zuckerberg has had it with these people. #liberty #news
mises.org: Wall Street Prospers while Main Street Suffers -- https://tinyurl.com/25wujvnw -- GDP is a ridiculous way to gauge the strength of the economy. While prices on Wall Street remain robust, trouble lurks on Main Street. #liberty #news
mises.org: Freedom of Speech and Defamation Laws -- https://tinyurl.com/223ago4h -- With governments cracking down on free speech and even criminalizing alleged defamation, it is time to take a new look at libel laws. Murray Rothbard provides a clear-headed view of libel law—and why it shouldn‘t exist at all. #liberty #news
reason.com: Texas Cop Chases Prostitution Suspect, Causes Car Accident, Gets Immunity -- https://tinyurl.com/2a8y7ue6 -- Houston police initiated a high-speed chase to pursue a suspect evading arrest for paying $40 to solicit sexual activity from another adult, notes a Texas Supreme Court judge. #liberty #news
reason.com: A Failed State -- https://tinyurl.com/28fo8768 -- Plus: Israeli hostage update, ultraprocessed childhoods, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Modern Academe Has Corrupted the Media (And Pretty Much Everything Else) -- https://tinyurl.com/269q6uvx -- American higher education, which is supposed to be about learning truth, has become a bastion of untruth. As higher education loses accountability, it simultaneously is corrupting other institutions, especially journalism and even the business world. #liberty #news
mises.org: Politicians Won’t Solve Our Spending Problem Unless We Make Them -- https://tinyurl.com/2yt77s6u -- Politicians respond to pressure. If we want them to actually carry out the cuts they claim to stand for it’s up to us to provide that pressure. #liberty #news
mises.org: Eating the Rich Is Not a Good Idea -- https://tinyurl.com/2czmsjho -- Progressives have been calling for heavy taxes and other confiscatory policies to be aimed at wealthy Americans. While they didn‘t win the recent presidential election, their toxic message remains. #liberty #news
reason.com: Next-Generation Nuclear Energy Developer Sues Federal Regulators -- https://tinyurl.com/27zj23bg -- If successful, the lawsuit could be a significant first step in reducing the red tape that has plagued American nuclear power. #liberty #news
reason.com: American Public Has High Hopes for New Trump Administration -- https://tinyurl.com/2cxhxkj8 -- The incoming administration has an opportunity—if it can meet expectations. #liberty #news
mises.org: Annexing Canada Would Be Like Adding a Second California -- https://tinyurl.com/24ohzgsy -- With Canada as the fifty-first state, the Republicans would not win another national election for many years, and Congress would move significantly to the Left. #liberty #news
reason.com: With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies -- https://tinyurl.com/22dbuzfj -- Blocking Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel lays the groundwork for a major consolidation of American steelmaking that will harm consumers and the economy. #liberty #news
mises.org: Ireland and the Housing Crisis -- https://tinyurl.com/24zrevvf -- Ireland is suffering from the same kind of housing crisis that has hurt the US. Not surprisingly, the crises in both countries have their roots in government intervention undertaken ostensibly to make housing more affordable. #liberty #news
reason.com: Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target -- https://tinyurl.com/2bm3un2h -- From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech. #liberty #news
reason.com: 5th Circuit Reaffirms That Prosecuting a Marijuana User for Illegal Gun Possession Was Unconstitutional -- https://tinyurl.com/2bsw9a99 -- Patrick Darnell Daniels Jr. was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for violating a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms. #liberty #news
mises.org: A New Documentary about Carl Menger -- https://tinyurl.com/243as6oy -- The Polish Mises Institute released, on its YouTube channel, a new documentary about Carl Menger. #liberty #news