Iceland Today, the US Tomorrow?
Iceland is not the only government to turn to a departure tax to raise revenue. Just last year, in order to raise revenue for federal transportation programs, Congress gave...
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Fifteen Years Into the Afghan War, Do Americans Know the Truth?
Last week marked the fifteenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the longest war in US history. There weren’t any victory parades or photo-ops with Afghanistan’s post-liberation leaders....
Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
The Wells Fargo bank account scandal took center stage in the news last week and in all likelihood will continue to make headlines for many weeks to come. What...
The Fed Plans for the Next Crisis
Much more significant than Yellen’s latest suggestion of a rate increase was her call for the Fed to think outside the box in developing responses to the next financial...
The Right Lessons From Obamacare’s Meltdown
The first step in restoring a health care system that meets the needs of all people is to start treating health care as a good that can and should...
What Should We Do About Crimea?
The idea that we would be facing the prospect of World War III over which flag flies above a tiny finger of land that most US politicians couldn’t find...
The Phony Job Recovery
If jobs are created through government money creation and heavily protectionist laws and regulations, those jobs will not meet the needs of consumers, will add nothing to productivity, and...
Americans Are Going to be Disappointed in Election Outcome
It is a sad commentary on the state of political life in the United States that our political conventions have become more like rock music festivals than competitions of...
The Path to Fed-Exit
As long as the Federal Reserve is allowed to manipulate the value of money and support the welfare-warfare state, we will never have a truly free market or a...
Don’t Reform the Fed, Fed-Exit!
Opponents of a central bank should take advantage of the post-Brexit vote revival of secessionist sentiments to promote a secession from central banking, or “Fed-exit.” ...
On July 4th Demand Freedom, Don’t Celebrate the State
As we gather with family and friends to celebrate the July 4th holiday we should remember that we are not celebrating the state, but rather commemorating an act of...
After ‘Brexit,’ Can We Exit a Few Things Too?
Last week’s UK vote to leave the EU may have come as a shock to many, but the sentiment that led British voters to reject rule from Brussels is...
Orlando: The New 9/11?
About the only thing Orlando has in common with 9/11 is the way power-hungry politicians and federal officials wasted no time using it to justify expanding government and restricting...
Fascism: A Bipartisan Affliction
If neoconservatives and progressives truly understood fascism, they would stop using the word as a smear term. That is because both groups, along with most political figures and commentators,...
The Keynesians Stole The Jobs
Late last week the markets were shocked by a surprisingly bad May jobs report — the worst monthly report in nearly six years. ...