While both the Left and Right celebrate the government's new drive to subsidize American microchip manufacturing, we should remember that political "investments" always result in crony capitalist disasters.

It will be nearly impossible to make any real changes in Washington for the next two years. The real battles are now in the states. 

The jobs data is worse than the latest headlines suggest, and workers are staring at falling real wages, declining savings, and mounting debt. We can thank the Fed. 

The dollar's petrodollar status has led the Federal Reserve to irresponsibly inflate the currency. The rest of the world has noticed and is looking for alternatives.

Marxist regimes used to slap the word "antirevolutionary" on everything the regimes disliked. Today's regimes use the words "undemocratic" and "antidemocratic" in the same way. 

Roman Keynesianism that ruined the empire and destroyed the Roman economy.

Daniel McCarthy joins Jeff and Bob to consider the deep unseriousness of American politics and electorate.

Government programs like Medicare are called insurance, yet they are anything but. There is a difference between public and private plans.

Modern warfare is a product of the state, which engages in violence at home and abroad. Peace is possible, but only when the state loses power.

After praising Mises for his work on socialism, Tyler Cowen goes on to claim Human Action is "cranky and dogmatic." "Brilliant and insightful" would have been more truthful.