War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.
September 22, 2020 Why Don't Libertarians Call for Restoring a Republic?
One of the most notable aspects of the libertarian movement is the dearth of articles, books, and speeches calling for the dismantling of America’s national-security state and the restoration of our nation’s founding governmental system of a limited-government republic. If you have any doubts about this assertion, just take a close look at all the libertarian books that have been ...
Should Social Security Be Expanded?
by Laurence M. Vance
Time is running out for Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security. The Constitution, ...
Growing Up Under Keynesian Economics
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Unfortunately, all of our lives we have grown up under Keynesian economics. Join FFF president Jacob G. ...
The FBI's Forgotten Crimes against Richard Jewell
by James Bovard
A new movie about Richard Jewell is reminding Americans of one of the forgotten travesties of the 1990s. When he died in 2007 at ...
Disaggregating Keynes Demonstrates Macro Delusions
by Richard M. Ebeling
The economic downturn that has accompanied the coronavirus crisis has seen huge increases in government deficit spending and mounting national debt in the United ...
