All posts tagged "Civil Liberties"

Reprinted from the Freeman In this great mortuary of the half-living — where nearby someone was wheezing...

It used to be that central banks were constrained in setting monetary policy by the zero lower...

Underground banks in China Dear Sirs: Money will flee areas where it is repressed just as people will flee areas where they are repressed. Capital controls can be seen as the monetary analogy of the Berlin Wall. Capital controls are indications of a failed economic system that benefits the politically connected elite at...

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is sacrosanct in many circles, particularly among those who consider...

Regarding the country as their own private property, the monarchist-aristocratic class will wish to preserve the capital-value...

Reprinted from The Freeman When Murray Rothbard was a young student, he wrote under the pen name...

This essay originally appeared on the author’s blog on August 24, 2012 and was later included in...

This essay originally appeared on the author’s blog on August 24, 2012 and was later included in...

Re: Debate swirls over lifting crude-oil export ban Dear Sirs: The answer to your headline question on the front of Sunday’s business section is self-evident. The crude oil export ban cannot be justified on any economic or moral basis. It is an economic myth that there can be rational economic calculation under...

Re: The case for retiring another barbarous relic Dear Sirs: I was appalled at your supposed “case” for eliminating cash, which you yourselves describe as the peoples’ “go-to safe asset”. And what IS your case? One, “cash…limits the central banks’ ability to stimulate a depressed economy.” Really? Although I am not in...

Reprinted from the Freeman With the passage of time Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s historical shrine has eroded somewhat,...

Reprinted from the Freeman Economist Abigail Hall is under fire for her defense of selling babies. A...

Much has been written about the War on Drugs, especially its disastrous effects on the life of...

Those who value privacy intended as respect of individual property rights, for example in one’s own communications,...

When it comes to being employed by the government, membership has its privileges....

Reprinted from Zerohedge.com It’s official: the world has gone central-planner crazy. Monetary policy, whether in the form...

Reprinted from LewRockwell.com This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American “Civil War,”...

I’ll bet you forgot to buy a card and gift, didn’t you? Boy, is your face red!...

“Delanda est in Susidium Foederatum Bank” (The Federal Reserve Bank Must be Destroyed) During the years of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder ended every speech with the phrase “Delanda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed). Rome had fought two wars with Carthage, yet the threat to the Republic remained. Cato saw...

A measles outbreak in the U.S. has prompted a national debate over vaccinations, a debate that quickly...