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California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California’s bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities.
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California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California’s bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities.
Like presidents before him, Donald Trump is using the IRS as a weapon against organizations he doesn‘t like. Richard Nixon did the same thing—and...
Lately, James Lindsay has burned much of his credibility in attacking largely non-interventionist right-wingers as “Woke Right.”
The Fed is now hemmed in by a rising risk of stagflation. It doesn‘t know where the economy is headed, or is unwilling to...
In its so-called war against “hate,” the state determines who are the villains and then instructs everyone else to hate the “haters.” As one...
While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own collectivist...
What does ChatGPT know about money? More than one might think. George Ford Smith asks the AI program some questions about money and gets...
When discussing the homeless situation in the US, Star Trek does not usually come to mind. However, one episode from about three decades ago...
With Europe moving toward conflict in 1938, a number of economists and other intellectuals met in Paris to try to revitalize liberalism. Ludwig von...
When the bankers called for a central bank in the US, they claimed to only want a way to stop bank runs. It turns...
In the past four years, a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy have been torn down or removed. As we have seen before, however,...
Ask most people why our economy is advanced, and they will likely will answer, “Technology.” Yet, technical knowledge is meaningless without capital development, and...
Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened.
The Ukraine war rages on and while the media and political classes repeat the “Putin started it” mantra, the evidence points elsewhere. The US...