The tremendous merit of gold is, if we want to put it that way, a negative one: It is not a managed paper money that can ruin everyone who is legally forced to accept it or who puts his confidence in it. The technical criticism of the gold standard become utterly trivial when compared with this single merit.
– Henry Hazlitt
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
January 24, 2020 Copying the Communists
The incarceration of 56-year-old Chinese citizen Huang Qi at the hands of Chinese authorities helps to remind us of how the conversion of the U.S. government to a national-security state fundamentally altered life in America in an adverse way. Huang is a human-rights advocate in China, one who has courageously publicized and disclosed human-rights violations on the part of the ...
Deadly Distractions
by John W. Whitehead
And so it continues. This impeachment fiasco is merely the latest in a never-ending series of distractions, distortions, and political theater aimed at diverting the ...
The Libertarian Angle - Socialism in America, Part 10
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
A majority of millennials approve of socialism, and progressives are gaining more influence with every election. What ...
John Stuart Mill on Slavery and the American Civil War
by Richard M. Ebeling
One of the most heated and controversial issues today concerns the place of slavery in the history of the United States, and attitudes toward ...
Understanding the Freedom We Have Lost
by Richard M. Ebeling
Few people can really understand what life is like in a totalitarian state unless they have lived there or have had the opportunity to ...
