mises.org: Public Unreason: Making Sense of Nicholas Wolterstorff -- -- In Nicholas Wolterstorff‘s Understanding Liberal Democracy, he assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful. #liberty #news
mises.org: Don’t Pay Down the National Debt. Just Stop the Deficit Spending -- -- For now, the number one thing we can to do make the federal debt less costly and more manageable is to just stop making it bigger. #liberty #news
reason.com: What Happens When Presidents Defy Court Orders? -- -- “The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions.” #liberty #news
mises.org: Tariffs Mean Lost Jobs -- -- The goalposts are continually changing (more like fallacy-hopping), but one would-be goal of tariffs needs to be confronted—tariffs for domestic job protection. #liberty #news
reason.com: Ignoring SCOTUS -- -- Plus: A deep dive into the likelihood of China invading Taiwan, a weak dollar, Kasparov sounds constitutional crisis alarms, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Opponents of Big Government Need to Reverse the "Ratchet Effect" -- -- Economist Robert Higgs described the ratchet effect in which government either creates a crisis or responds to one, leading to a permanent expansion of government power. After the crisis ends, government retreats—but not to the point where is was pre-crisis. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Federal Government Is Still on Track for a $2-Trillion-Plus Deficit -- -- It’s going to take a lot more than some trimming around the edges to change the federal government’s current trajectory into continued $2-trillion-plus annual deficits. #liberty #news
reason.com: In 12 Years, This $40 Billion High-Speed Rail Line in Texas Has Not Laid a Single Foot of Track -- -- The budget for the project has quadrupled, and private property owners have opposed the use of eminent domain along the proposed 240-mile route. #liberty #news
mises.org: Free Markets, Entrepreneurial Error, and the Nico Iamaleava Saga -- -- College football has finally experienced an athlete‘s holdout in order to leverage a hoped-for payday. In the case of Nico Iamaleava, he tried to leverage more money from the University of Tennessee but failed spectacularly. There are economic lessons to be learned here. #liberty #news
reason.com: CECOT Forever -- -- Plus: Israel stopped from striking Iran nuclear sites, Zohran Mamdani wants to soak the rich, and more... #liberty #news