Time Preference and Success: Is There Any Link?
Every human acts purposefully using scarce means to attain ends. From this action axiom, we can deduce further human behavior
Are Libertarians Abandoning Free Trade?
Murray N. Rothbard wrote in the February 1971 issue of the Libertarian Forum that “libertarians, if they have any personal
The RESTRICT Act Launches a New War on
The bipartisan RESTRICT Act—marketed as a “Tik Tok ban”—is properly named because it will restrict freedom, empower the state, and
Eye on Apple
Mark looks at the price of Apple stock—one of the best performing stocks over the last quarter century, and one
How the Fed Rules and Inflates
[From chapter 23 of The Case Against the Fed.] Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking,
The Ruling Classes Are Inflation Deniers and the
Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe. —Ludwig von Mises Consumers’ behaviors cause the consumer price index (CPI) broad heading
Will AI Steal Our Jobs (or End Us)?
Professor Per Bylund joins Bob to debunk the worries over AI and to question whether the latest version of chatbots should
Real Wages Fall for Two Years Straight as
The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released new price inflation data last week, and according to the report, price inflation
Lincoln’s Main Target Was “Anarchy” and Secession, Not
In a recent column, I discussed an argument about secession made by Abraham Lincoln and sympathetically expounded by Michael P.
Prevent Future Losses Like East Palestine by Reducing
On February 3, 2023, on Norfolk Southern Railway’s general merchandise freight train 32N, a suspect bearing on the twenty-third car