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One the of best argued cases for a 'reflationary' outlook The post Lyn Alden: Fed Won’t Do Yield Curve Control Until Something Big Breaks appeared first on The Sounding Line.

One of the primary justifications given for state provision of a good or service is that it is a “public good,” meaning that it is sufficiently costly to exclude nonpayers from enjoying the good and that one person’s enjoyment of […]

In the first installment of this series on government default, we examined the ethical status of the public debt and debt repudiation. Since the debt represents an unjust imposition on the taxpayers, we concluded that the moral thing to do would be […]

Austrian economics has always been on the leading edge of innovative thinking applicable to business. Back in the last century, there was a group of American economists of the Austrian school who greatly advanced theories related to […]

As I pointed out in my article “The VMI Controversy,” the VMI administration has recently removed a statue of Stonewall Jackson from the VMI parade ground in front of barracks. The statue was given to VMI in 1912 by its sculptor, Sir […]

The refusal of the SCOTUS to consider the merits of a case concerning 2020 election laws is the sort of behavior that we have come to expect from spineless politicians, and that is what you find on America's highest court—politicians in […]

Before 2020, there were growing signs of increasing economic prosperity for a wide variety of income groups in America. Whether or not this prosperity survives covid lockdowns and ever higher levels of government regulations remains to be seen. […]

I first met Murray Rothbard when, as treasurer of the New Jersey Libertarian Party, I invited him to give the keynote address at our inaugural convention. He graciously agreed to do it for the paltry sum of $75 plus a puny chicken dinner. Prior to […]

Is the tide finally turning against the Big-Tech woke-mob? The post Big Tech in (Further) Decline? appeared first on The Sounding Line.

[These edited extracts, from an interview in the February 1973 issue of Reason magazine, first ran in the June 1999 issue of the Rothbard-Rockwell Report.] Q: Why, in your view, is isolationism an essential tenet of libertarian […]