Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what politicians want us to believe. The truth is that the case for defunding Amtrak has never been stronger.

Original article: Why Elon Musk Is Right: The Case Against Subsidizing Amtrak

William Nordhaus coined the term “political business cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, particularly the central bank, would manipulate the economy to correspond with election cycles, a practice that continues to this day.

Original article: The Political Business Cycle 50 Years Later

The Trump White House has enacted tariffs in the belief that other countries are “cheating” by enacting tariffs against US goods and “manipulating” their currencies. However, with the US dollar being the world's reserve currency, the US has engaged in dollar manipulation through inflation.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-and-us-history-redefining-chartalism

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.

Original article: Enslavement of Native Americans in the Caribbean

Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry, which is why we always should question those political decisions that can turn our lives upside down.

Original article: Don’t Be A Panican, But Question Government Shenanigans

Mainstream economists define inflation as the increase in an imaginary “price level” that is relatively neutral in its effects. Austrian economists, however, know better, as they realize that the effects of inflating the money supply are anything but neutral.

Original article: Inflation: Looking Beyond Aggregates

A free market economy does not generate jobs or money. Instead, it creates wealth through exchange and production. Government intervention, contrary to what mainstream economists believe, does not enhance wealth, but instead destroys it.

Original article: Wealth Generation and the Market Economy

We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don't know. But we also know that President Kennedy challenged the National Security State. Did it cost him his life?

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jfk-and-burden-proof

From Reconstruction to George Floyd, the left‘s guilt industry has run at full speed. As Murray Rothbard wrote, it is time to stand up to those that use guilt as a social weapon.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/politics-guilt

Thanks to the endless “War Against Terror,” the US Government promoted methods of torture, including some borrowed from the sadistic torturers of the former Soviet Union. Congress stood by and let it happen.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-never-got-torture-congress