Trump’s Promised ‘New Foreign Policy’ Must Abandon Regime Change for Iran
While I hope we can take President Trump at his word when it comes to foreign policy, I also we think we should hold him to his word — especially his...
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To Really “Make America Great Again,” End the Fed!
Those of us who understand that changing monetary policy is the key to making America great again must redouble our efforts to convince Congress and the new president to...
Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must be for Actual Defense
Do we really need to continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars manipulating elections overseas? Destabilizing governments that do not do as Washington tells them? Rewarding those who follow...
Blame Government, Not Markets, for Monopoly
Those concerned about excessive corporate power should join supporters of the free market in repudiating the regulations, taxes, and subsides that benefit politically-powerful businesses. ...
Obama’s Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
While the mainstream media continues its obsessive reporting on the mud-slinging campaign for the White House, a dramatic development in China last week brought President Obama’s “pivot to Asia”...
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...
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.” ...