mises.org: Why Governments Burned Money -- -- While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for reasons other than what MMT advocates are claiming. In the end, the MMT promoters are telling a false history. #liberty #news
reason.com: Montreal Fines Church $2,500 for Hosting a Controversial American Singer -- -- Christian artist Sean Feucht has been forced to find new venues for all six of his most recent shows in Canada. #liberty #news
reason.com: The U.K. Keeps Threatening To Censor American Tech Companies -- -- X has begun restricting content related to Gaza for its U.K. users, and Reddit has implemented age-verification measures to view posts about cigars. #liberty #news
mises.org: Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train? -- -- The Trump administration has withdrawn its promised $4 billion for the California Bullet Train project because this project does not have a viable future. While they may complete the 171-mile Central Valley portion, the rest of the project is dead in the water. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Life Source Missing from Today’s Narratives -- -- America recently celebrated Independence Day, but Americans were too quick to abandon their own individual freedoms and individual sovereignty and submit to the state. #liberty #news
mises.org: Christine Lagarde and the Privatization of Currency -- -- EU Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has declared that anything that might lead to private currencies must be stopped. Yet, as F.A. Hayek noted, one way to confound central banks is through private currencies. #liberty #news
reason.com: My New Dispatch Article on Judicial Review of Emergency Powers -- -- It makes the case for strong judicial review of executive invocations of sweeping emergency powers. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Leftists Who Celebrate Murder -- -- Plus: Kamala Harris makes the right choice for once, the burning of the birth control, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: WNBA Players: “Pay Us What You Owe Us” -- -- Discussions of wages often miss the all-important economic concept of a worker‘s diminishing marginal value product (DMVP), and the WNBA is no exception. #liberty #news
mises.org: The FTC versus Fortnite: “Consumer Protection” is Consumer Deception -- -- The Federal Trade Commission has fined the makers of the video game Fortnite more than $500 million ostensibly for violations that have no legal basis. This is yet another case of the feds shaking down producers in the name of “consumer protection.” #liberty #news