Yes, the mess is real, and it’s because habitual deficit financing — the very disease fiscally minded Founding Father Alexander Hamilton warned against — has become business as usual.
May 19, 2025 Disappearing People
One of the ways that brutal right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would terrorize the Chilean people into patriotic submission to his authority was by disappearing people. This was different from simply torturing and executing them. He and his goons certainly did that too. But disappearing people was different. With executions and bodies, families at least had certainty with respect to what had happened ...
Donald Trump's Trade Fallacies
by Richard M. Ebeling
Donald Trump has said more than once that the most beautiful word in the dictionary is “tariff” and that it is, in fact, his ...
Trump Watch: An Authoritarian Proclivity by Jacob G. Hornberger
In this week's Trump Watch, Jacob analyzes the consequences of President Trump's apparent proclivity for ...
