reason.com: 9th Circuit Partly Upholds Injunctions Against Location-Specific Gun Bans in California and Hawaii -- -- The ruling says some restrictions on guns in sensitive places are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Top Five Lessons for the Young Economist -- -- The Mises Institute is creating lessons for young economists to better help them evaluate and interpret economic events. Of course, these lessons also apply to anyone else wanting to be better education on economics. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Endorses Federal Marijuana Reforms and Reiterates His Support for Legalizing Pot in Florida -- -- His new stance could encourage Vice President Kamala Harris to emphasize her opposition to federal marijuana prohibition. #liberty #news
mises.org: Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery -- https://tinyurl.com/24ey6ocn -- Despite claims from progressive historians that US slavery was a natural outgrowth of a free market economy, the reality is that slavery would have been much costlier without governments—federal and state—subsidizing it. It is time to set the record straight. #liberty #news
mises.org: Is GDP an Accurate Measure of Reality? -- https://tinyurl.com/2a45padh -- Mainstream economists speak of GDP as though it is the economy itself, however, GDP is not a good measure of economic reality. Instead, it presents a distorted picture of genuine economic activity and leads to mistaken conclusions about the economy. #liberty #news
reason.com: Israel, Hamas, and the Need for Neutral Free Speech Principles -- -- The Israel-Hamas war has sparked ideological swaps in many places regarding freedom of speech, confirming more than ever why we need neutral free speech principles. #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953 -- -- 9/8/1953: Chief Justice Fred Vinson dies.   #liberty #news
reason.com: A Conversation on Climate Change, Catastrophism, and Illiberalism -- -- A panel discussion from the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference #liberty #news
reason.com: Republican Voters Got More Socially Liberal Under Trump -- -- Liberals spent the last decade moving leftward on questions of race and sexual orientation—and so did conservatives. #liberty #news
mises.org: America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago -- https://tinyurl.com/25k3nypn -- The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs. #liberty #news