mises.org: First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers -- https://tinyurl.com/24e4cghs -- The Trump administration continues its assault on the First Amendment and the rights of dissenters. The latest casualty is a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University who was arrested by US authorities because she wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper critical of Israel. #liberty #news
reason.com: Peter Navarro Says Tariffs Will Be a $6 Trillion Tax Increase, but Also a Tax Cut -- https://tinyurl.com/2y9pddbn -- If true, then these tariffs would be the biggest peacetime tax increase in American history. #liberty #news
reason.com: Defending Student Deportations, Marco Rubio Equates Writing an Anti-Israel Op-Ed With Starting a Riot -- https://tinyurl.com/27e3pvtz -- The detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk illustrates the startling breadth of the authority the secretary of state is invoking. #liberty #news
mises.org: Do Inflationary Expectations Cause General Increases in Prices? -- https://tinyurl.com/26esej95 -- Economists like to claim that expectations of more inflation lead to, well, more inflation. Such beliefs ignore the fact that inflation is an increase in the money supply and that general price increases result from fractional reserve-created monetary expansion. #liberty #news
reason.com: To Remain Canadian, Our Northern Neighbors Should Become a Little More American -- https://tinyurl.com/23d7zxf7 -- Canada long relied on the U.S. for protection. Now it needs to rediscover self-reliance. #liberty #news
reason.com: "The 2024 Presidential Campaign Saw a Massive Disinformation and Misinformation Campaign, … -- https://tinyurl.com/27bz7lbk -- which likely helped bring the current administration into power. #liberty #news
reason.com: Third Term -- https://tinyurl.com/2bsocnzb -- Plus: Cannabis rules, people deported for tattoos, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Warren Buffett Gets It Wrong -- https://tinyurl.com/256ho524 -- Warren Buffett is well-known for his investment acumen, and he often makes public statements in favor of capitalism. But his loyalty to the fiat monetary system undermines everything else that he claims to represent. #liberty #news
mises.org: Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government Spending Was Dubious -- https://tinyurl.com/2yeejxmp -- Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss Simon Kuznets’ role in developing GNP and GDP metrics and Kuznets’ concerns over how government spending is accounted for in economic statistics. #liberty #news
reason.com: Coastal Judges Play Keep-Away From The Fifth Circuit -- https://tinyurl.com/28nb4q4j -- The Trump administration detains individuals in Texas and Louisiana, yet federal courts on the Amtrak Corridor continue to exercise jurisdiction. #liberty #news
reason.com: Harvard Law School v. Vermeule -- https://tinyurl.com/2xqmphbq -- Dueling letters from 90+ members of the HLS faculty and Adrian Vermeule #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: March 30, 1875 -- https://tinyurl.com/23h3t5x6 -- 3/30/1875: U.S. v. Cruikshank argued.The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 30, 1875 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
reason.com: Coastal Judges Play Keep-Away From The Fifth Circuit -- https://tinyurl.com/278arech -- The Trump administration detains individuals in Texas and Louisiana, yet federal courts on the Amtrak Corridor continue to exercise jurisdiction. #liberty #news
reason.com: Court Temporarily Blocks Much of Executive Order Targeting the WilmerHale Law Firm -- https://tinyurl.com/27f5pwud -- [UPDATE 3/28/25 10:17 pm: See also a similar result, but with less explanation, from Judge John Bates (D.D.C.) in Jenner &…The post Court Temporarily Blocks Much of Executive Order Targeting the WilmerHale Law Firm appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
reason.com: Rise of the Samurai Lawyers -- https://tinyurl.com/24uf2ojy -- An economist explores how a stable and relatively just legal order emerged in medieval Japan. #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: March 29, 1937 -- https://tinyurl.com/24px7y8z -- 3/29/1937: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish decided.The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 29, 1937 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Saint-Simonians in Our Midst: Ben Bernanke and the GFC -- https://tinyurl.com/2ay2vapg -- While Ben Bernanke has accused free market and sound money advocates of pursuing “discredited” systems, he and his lieutenants were following a truly discredited way of thinking: socialism. The man who supposedly “saved the world” actually destabilized it. #liberty #news
mises.org: Free Trade with All Nations -- https://tinyurl.com/28wq68on -- Richard Cobden was a British champion of laissez-faire who served in Parliament. While there, he led to successful campaign to repeal the Corn Laws, which led to British free trade. #liberty #news
mises.org: Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century -- https://tinyurl.com/24aacfjp -- International trade is the topic du jour. Mark Thornton shares his recent presentation on a timely and important book featuring many of your favorite authors. #liberty #news
mises.org: Foreign Aid, Reparations, And Economic Growth -- https://tinyurl.com/29h7b6jq -- Western elites repeatedly call for “reparations” payments to former Western colonies ostensibly to lift them from poverty. By turning these countries into large welfare recipients, these elites perpetuate the very poverty they claim to decry. #liberty #news