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The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In truth, the Fed...
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The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In truth, the Fed...
“America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against militarism...
Conservatives may protest at first, but ultimately, they bring up the progressive rear to defend, and indeed celebrate, the new status quo.
When it comes to supporting the Trump administration, there is room for some honest self-reflection: What did I know and when did I know...
The Mail reports Trump has asked the Joint Special Operations Command to come up with an invasion plan, but the joint chiefs are resisting...
What would be the economic consequences if one individual had a money printer? Now trace that out to a central bank and government.
Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested...
President Trump has told The New York Times that he expects to “run” Venezuela for many years following the US attack on Caracas to...
What if the affordability crisis is not a failure of markets at all? What if it is the predictable outcome of how modern governments...
Each economic crisis brought on loose money brings on a “solution” of…looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to the economy but...
The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they...
Hyperinflation isn’t ancient history. It’s a recurring policy failure with war-level damage.
As an official Public Policy Hooligan, James Bovard is well-known for some of his zingers. Here are some he wrote in 2025.
The US is not the only country with a broken air traffic control system due to state control. India’s system also is in a...