Over Thanksgiving week the talk of the economically focused internet was a viral essay claiming, absurdly, that the real poverty line in America for a family of four is $140, 000 a year. If you were i...
12.02.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
When Murray Rothbard passed away in January of 1995, William F. Buckley Jr. obituarized him in National Review, excommunicating the libertarian and his followers one final time. “Yes, Murray Rothbard ...
11.30.2025 Theamericanconservative.com and 1 sites
One of the first serious issue debates of the 1992 U. S. Senate campaigns in California has a peculiar twist. Wherever conservative Republican Bruce Herschensohn goes to promote his flat-tax plan, his...
12.01.2025 Latimes.com
I am not sure how many of our learned Supreme Court judges have read Areopagitica, a long pamphlet that Milton Friedman wrote in 1644. There can’t be many I am certain. But it is also certain that mor...
12.01.2025 Indiatoday.in
Article content According to Milton Friedman, one reason the free market gets such bad press is that it has no press agent. In contrast, government officials always stand ready to glorify the government’s work and take credit for any positive outcomes it seemingly creates. That’s certainly the case in Canada today: government consumes significant public resources glorifying itself, without any regard for taxpayers or actual policy outcomes. Article content Blacklock’s Reporter gives a recent exa...
12.02.2025 Financialpost.com and 6 sites
The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a...
11.29.2025 Peoplesdemocracy.in and 2 sites
Milton Friedman once described his greatest regret -- working on a detail of the income tax system. More specifically, during WWII he worked on the American income tax system and was part of a group t...
11.30.2025 Dhakatribune.com and 1 sites
TapNewsWire. com | Pete Fairhurst “How can it hold? How can an international order founded on the subjugation of the majority of humankind manage to endure in the face of everything resisting it? What...
12.01.2025 Tapnewswire.com and 1 sitesThe zombie idea that never dies As 2026 looms, it brings with it an anniversary worth noticing: eighty years since Milton Friedman and George Stigler published Roofs or Ceilings? , the very first pamp...
12.04.2025 Hotair.com
The zombie idea that never dies. As 2026 looms, it brings with it an anniversary worth noticing: eighty years since Milton Friedman and George Stigler published Roofs or Ceilings? , the very first pamphlet of the newly founded Foundation for Economic...
12.01.2025 Fee.org and 1 sites