By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by state-directed outcomes. However, government programs have made things much worse.

Original article: Disparate Impact Is a Legal Trick

Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the other hand, said as long as gold is money and there is no fiduciary media, such a scenario was not possible.

Original article: Could an Increase in the Supply of Gold Cause a Boom-Bust Cycle?

Thanks to unrelenting propaganda from the establishment media, a large number of Americans are suffering from what is diagnosed as “climate anxiety.” 

Original article: Climate Anxiety: A Regime-Created “Illness”

Rent control always results in housing shortages and deteriorating housing stock. Governments and activists, unfortunately, never learn any lessons.

Original article: The Economic and Social Consequences of Rent Control

As we see from Jamaica‘s experience, attempts by the government to be entrepreneurial misallocate resources, waste money, and achieve poor results.

Original article: Jamaica and the Failure of the Entrepreneurial State

Never forget the Christmas truce of World War I, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day.

Original article: The Christmas Truce of World War I

Modern academic economics is based upon the methodologies used to study the natural sciences. However, such methodologies are inappropriate to study economics, which must be based upon causal-realism.

Original article: The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

As Joseph Schumpeter noted, markets need “creative destruction” to survive and advance. However, Europe‘s Digital Market Act (DMA)—while written to ostensibly protect competition—gives the digital economy uncreative destruction.

Original article: Destroying Creative Destruction: The DMA against Innovation

Economist Bryan Caplan has held up the United Arab Emirates as an example of how open borders can be successful. Caplan clearly does not understand how immigration works in the UAE.

Original article: Caplan’s Errors on the UAE and Open Borders

With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve underlying problems.

Original article: Post-Election Prospects for Ending DEI