mises.org: Should Inflation Be Defined Only as Price Increases? -- https://tinyurl.com/2cnjoxkq -- Mainstream economists define “inflation” as general increases in consumer and producer prices. Yet, such a definition misses why prices increase in the first place and why inflation should be described as an artificial increase in the money supply. #liberty #news
mises.org: Joe Biden’s Failed Foreign Policy Legacy -- https://tinyurl.com/27rcgjcv -- Not only was Joe Biden a failed president domestically, but he also was a failure in his foreign policy. From sending troops to Haiti to the Ukraine war to conflict in the Middle East, Biden never missed an opportunity to make a bad situation worse. #liberty #news
reason.com: What Process Is Due Before Property Is Destroyed? -- https://tinyurl.com/29k8kez3 -- The Sixth Circuit finds a city failed to provide adequate process before demolishing a condemned mobile home. #liberty #news
mises.org: Modern Piggy Banks -- https://tinyurl.com/2cejla79 -- Pundits have labeled piggy banks small change, irrational and wasteful, “just sitting around doing nothing.” As usual, they are wrong. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Difference Between the Market and the Bureaucracy -- https://tinyurl.com/2543myj6 -- Without the discipline of profit-and-loss, the desires and goals of the bureaucrats, limited only by the prescriptions and budget of the legislature, necessarily guide policy. #liberty #news
reason.com: Banks Are Narcing on You Because Congress Forces Them To -- https://tinyurl.com/22l4vxzg -- The Bank Secrecy Act regime forces banks to report customers to the government for an ever-growing list of “red flags.” #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: January 25, 1819 -- https://tinyurl.com/29nbtrh8 -- 1/25/1819: Thomas Jefferson charters the University of Virginia. 176 years later, the Supreme Court would decide Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors…The post Today in Supreme Court History: January 25, 1819 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Tries To Fire Inspectors General, Likely Violating Federal Law -- https://tinyurl.com/25fjwfw6 -- A law passed in 2022 requires the president to give Congress a substantive rationale for removing inspectors general. Trump has not done that. #liberty #news
mises.org: Austrian Economics on the March -- https://tinyurl.com/23pkhkpe -- I have long argued that Austrian economics should be developed not as an alternative to the current academic discipline of economics but as a replacement for it. #liberty #news
mises.org: How the US Became So Dysfunctional, Oligarchic, and Corrupt -- https://tinyurl.com/2aamkdnq -- How did the US go from a nation that revered liberty to one with despotic governance? While political forces already were trying to push the US in a direction of centralization, the Civil War completed the job. We see the results of those centralized outcomes daily. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why the World Is Giving Up on Birthright Citizenship -- https://tinyurl.com/234nybpp -- Unrestricted birthright citizenship is increasingly rare, and with only a few exceptions, it persists only in countries with negative or near-zero rates of in-migration. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Cultural War in Economic Science -- https://tinyurl.com/2ypc79qc -- The challenge facing economic science is to counter the reactionary counterrevolution by states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation and free human interaction based on liberty. The chains must be thrown off in favor of the libertarian ideal of an anarchocapitalist system. #liberty #news
mises.org: Did Abraham Lincoln Preserve or Destroy the Union? -- https://tinyurl.com/2bdvmgzd -- Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A closer look gives us a different picture of “Honest Abe.” David Gordon reviews a book that very much questions the Lincoln mythology. #liberty #news
reason.com: Study Finds Almost No Good Evidence on Gender Dysphoria Drugs for Young People -- https://tinyurl.com/2xjjkaow -- Two new meta-analyses make a case for individualistic approaches to puberty blockers and hormone treatments, driven by patients, parents, and doctors rather than the state. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Reportedly Preparing an Executive Order Banning Federal Funding of Gain-of-Function Research -- https://tinyurl.com/29wwy99x -- The past three administrations have tried to limit gain-of-function research. The second Trump administration might be the first one to be successful at doing so. #liberty #news
reason.com: SCOTUS Grants Cert In Oklahoma Charter School Case, With Justice Barrett Recused -- https://tinyurl.com/28vm9787 -- Today the Court granted review in Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond. This is an important religious liberty case concerning whether…The post SCOTUS Grants Cert In Oklahoma Charter School Case, With Justice Barrett Recused appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Second Trump Term and the “Sanctions Industrial Complex” -- https://tinyurl.com/2a5y2rxf -- Washington has wielded the sanctions weapon against nearly a third of all nations on earth. It is time to rethink these policies, and one hopes the incoming Trump administration will do just that and change course. #liberty #news
mises.org: Slavery—Cronyism, Opportunity Cost, and Deadweight Loss -- https://tinyurl.com/2b8ye9b6 -- A modern misconception of antebellum slavery is that it “built the country.” Actually, the institution of slavery, economically speaking, was a deadweight loss to the US economy. #liberty #news
mises.org: J.M. Keynes’s Versailles Hypocrisy -- https://tinyurl.com/2y43zsy5 -- It is well-known that Murray Rothbard and Ralph Raico could not be characterized as fans of Keynes, but it turns out that they were mistakenly too easy on him on one issue, giving him some credit he does not deserve. #liberty #news
mises.org: State Management of Race Relations -- https://tinyurl.com/2be42o6v -- In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard conceptualizes “the defense of the rights of person and property” as the foundation of libertarian law. #liberty #news