mises.org: The American Federal Government 21st Bankruptcy Show -- -- Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices. #liberty #news
reason.com: The GOP Tax Bill Will Add $2.3 Trillion to the Deficit, CBO Says -- -- That total could double if temporary provisions in the bill become permanent, as is likely to happen. #liberty #news
reason.com: A Federal Judge Says New Mexico Cops Reasonably Killed an Innocent Man at the Wrong House -- -- U.S. District Judge Matthew Garcia rejected the argument that the officers recklessly created the need to apply deadly force by going to the wrong address. #liberty #news
mises.org: Diploma Inflation and the Erosion of Academic Signaling -- -- Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to make higher education readily available, the value of a college degree has been severely degraded. #liberty #news
mises.org: What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class -- -- The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved. #liberty #news
mises.org: Spain in the Dark: Chronicle of a Foretold Blackout -- -- Centralizing electricity management is probably a mistake. It makes us collectively vulnerable to a single failure or attack and also inefficient. #liberty #news
reason.com: Most Migrants Deported to Imprisonment in El Salvador Under the Alien Enemies Act Had no Criminal Record and Many had Entered the US Legally -- -- A new Cato Institute study by David Bier presents the most extensive available evidence on these points. #liberty #news
mises.org: MAHA is a Movement of Government Overreach -- -- Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does. #liberty #news
mises.org: Mercantilism in America: The Trouble with Self-Sufficiency -- -- President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain‘s national policy. #liberty #news
reason.com: What Kristi Noem Gets Wrong About Habeas Corpus -- -- The legal principle safeguards civil liberties, protecting even unpopular people from the government. #liberty #news