News

After 1820, growing numbers of propertyless squatters were voters, and this was an opportunity for politicians to offer cheap land...

On this week's episode, Mark summarizes the many problems with EVs, and focuses on two consequences funded by taxpayer subsidy. Large,...

Paul Gottfried is no stranger to criticism from “conservative” gatekeepers. Like his friend and colleague Murray Rothbard, Gottfried has been...

During the three years after World War II, Germans—facing a ruined economy and wildly depreciating currency—turned to cigarettes as a...

Bob walks through a recent interview of MMT champion Warren Mosler, in which he claims that Fed rate hikes lead...

First Republic, Signature Bank, and Silicon Valley Bank have all failed, and that’s not the only thing they have in...

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation supposedly protects people from government data abuse. In reality, it empowers governments. Original...

A recurring theme in American politics is the cynical use of federal power by those who simultaneously pretend to favor...

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracyby Quinn SlobodianMetropolitan Books, 2023; 336 pp. Quinn Slobodian,...

Socialists like Bernie Sanders and the editors of Jacobin have decried the possible US government debt default. Marx and Lenin would have vociferously...