*VIDEO* Peter Schiff Asks: Is a college degree worth the cost?
Peter Schiff visits New Orleans to find out what people are doing with their college degrees. Have a watch and tell us what you think!
Peter Schiff visits New Orleans to find out what people are doing with their college degrees. Have a watch and tell us what you think!
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…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kitty Testa Early last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan met with Donald Trump’s transition team to discuss elements of Ryan’s tax plan, euphemistically called A Better Way. The web site for the plan is light on details, but includes measures intended to increase exports using the tax code as…
By Micah J. Fleck Well, who would have thought? A government entity that can’t manage money. Only this time, it lied about this fact for years and only got found out in a recent audit. According to Reuters: The new report focused on the Army’s General Fund, the bigger of its two main accounts, with…
by Kitty Testa Recreational marijuana usage elicits visions of dread-locked burnouts giggling over pot gummies, but a more refined market is developing—at least in Colorado. Cultivating Spirits is an upscale eatery in Silverthorne, CO offering cannabis pairings to complement their food and wine offerings. The establishment’s owner, Philip Wolf, is a cannabis sommelier, accredited by…
The question on why some countries are rich and prosperous whereas others seem to be condemned to the scourge of poverty has been around for centuries. Many factors have been argued to be the determinants of prosperity: geographical, cultural, historical, etc. Yet, since at least the publication in 1776 of The Wealth of Nations, we…
It is no secret to those of us within the liberty movement that Socialism is both immoral and unsustainable. But there is a growing movement in this country to abandon the eternal laws that govern the free market system in favor of economic ideas based on extortion and control that will never lead to a…
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