economics Archives - The Libertarian Republic

The Great Crash and Depression: 90 Years Later 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page
- August 15, 2019
Ninety years ago this very month—August 1929—most stock investors thought they’d never had it so good. By November, they thought they’d never had it so bad. They were pretty much right on both occasions, though things would get a lot worse before they got better. Amid today’s gyrating stock market and increasing talk of recession,
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For Most Things, Recycling Harms the Environment 0
- Front Page, Political Opinion
- August 14, 2019
In 2008 I was invited to a conference called Australia Recycles! in Fremantle. I flew coach for 30 hours (we had to divert, at one point, to Auckland instead of Sydney because huge headwinds used up more fuel than expected) and landed in Perth and then was driven to Freo by one of the conference
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Everyone Loses and No One Wins With Immigration Crackdowns 0
- Economics of Liberty, Foreign Policy, Front Page, Political Opinion
- August 13, 2019
On Saturday, August 3rd, a mass shooting by a white supremacist terrorist targeted Hispanic-Americans in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people and leaving another 24 injured. Just days later, there were a series of unannounced raids by ICE that targeted these particular communities in Mississippi, in which 680 undocumented, largely Latino immigrants, were arrested and slated
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NYC Feeling the Effects of the ‘Fight for 15’0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- August 7, 2019
New York City is already struggling to maintain its $15 minimum wage after only being in effect for around six months, according to The Wall Street Journal. Business owners in the city have said that these are the unintended consequences of the new minimum wage law which took effect earlier this year. Susannah Koteen, who
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Tucker Carlson Says Corporations Are Now the Biggest Threat to Your Freedom. He’s Wrong 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- July 20, 2019
Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg have no prisons. They’ve never run an internment camp or seized anyone’s home for failure to mow their lawn. Their body counts are a combined zero. Yet in a recent keynote address at the National Conservatism conference, Tucker Carlson suggested that big corporations—like Google, Twitter, and Facebook—are a greater threat
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Don’t Feel Bad About Using the Self Checkout 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page
- July 20, 2019
Have you seen a meme exhorting you not to use self-checkout because it impoverishes workers who are replaced by unfeeling scanners? There is no harm in making that choice. But if we remember our lessons from Frederic Bastiat, we can see why the rationale behind the campaign is absurd. Why should we stop with the self-checkout? We would create more
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