Posts on economics
I received several comments and questions regarding trade after the publication of my recent article, “Stupid Countries Restrict Trade.” Here is a summary of some questions that a few people ...
If you spend any time paying attention to the news, you’d be under the impression that the sky is falling because so many bad things are happening, both in the ...
In my last article, I introduced Gary North and his book, Christian Economics in One Lesson. This book is a spin-off of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. North is ...
Credentialed Experts are not at the forefront of innovation and discovery, driving truth forward. Their job is to tell a story about the past that doesn’t threaten the present and ...
I had the pleasure of attending for the first time FEEcon this month. I met several interesting people, from fellow attendees to some of the speakers, including the president, Lawrence ...
This guest post was written by Paul LaScola. If complete slavery is defined as full forceful control over one’s actions by another person or persons, then taxation is a lesser ...
Today’s guest post is by Paul LaScola. People or companies that require production assistance and are able to pay for it, create jobs. What is a job anyway? A job ...
Tax returns are due soon, and what better way to get into the involuntary spirit than to commiserate together as libertarians and read Dr. Norman Horn’s popular series, “10 Things ...
Among Christian libertarians, as with other libertarians, there are differing views concerning the legitimacy, necessity, and inevitability of the state. For some, this is the worn-out debate between a view supporting ...
Little did I know as I was planning, designing, and typesetting my new little book Free Trade or Protectionism? that the official release date I selected would coincide with the ...
Imagine a town. Maybe an early New England village. There is a dominant belief in this town that one must attend church every Sunday if they want to live a ...
Today’s guest post is by writer/commentator Paul LaScola. The sense of God and commerce have both been with mankind throughout history. These two characteristics of man — one spiritual, ...
In 2013, in response to the increasing “open carry” debate, Howard Schultz, the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Starbucks posted an open letter on the company’s website requesting ...
How do we win liberty for the future? Where does the liberty movement go in these rapidly changing times? A Neighbor’s Choice founder and syndicated writer David Gornoski speaks with ...
Last month I did a preliminary libertarian analysis of the Republicans’ newest tax-reform plan. I concluded that their “Unified Framework For Fixing Our Broken Tax Code” left us with too ...
There are many divergent views about specific topics within libertarian Christian thought, just as there are within strictly libertarian or strictly Christian thinking. But the overarching theme that unites the ...
My father and I recently finished publishing a book entitled Paradise Destroyed: The Destruction of Rural Living by the Wind Energy Scam. The book reached #1 on Amazon for “New ...
If I could choose to be the most knowledgeable person in the world or the most curious, I’d choose the latter without hesitation. Every interesting thing I’ve done has been ...
It has often been pointed out that corporate profits are double taxed when a corporation pays income tax on its profit and then shareholders pay income tax on that same ...
“Post-scarcity”, “Post-economic”, and “Post-capitalist” are meant to convey a fundamental shift in the principles of human action, wrought by technological advancement. In reality, they are just cute linguistic hyperbole. There ...
* Today’s guest post comes from Justin Nguyen, founder and Director of Nguyen Solutions, a Christian libertarian-owned startup currently crowdfunding a campaign to recycle food using the black soldier fly. ...
If I hear another bureaucrat complain about Airbnb creating a “shortage” of housing, I’ll vomit. Airbnb, like the steam engine, wash machine, and internet, is a disruptive business innovation of ...
This is the third in a series evaluating Gary North’s book, Christian Economics in One Lesson. North’s work is a spin-off of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson, which is ...
Growing up, my parents sought to instill in my sister and me an appreciation for our Native American heritage. Now that my husband and I have started a family of ...
It never fails. Every time I write anything about taxes I get long, rambling e-mails from tax trolls who scour the Internet looking for articles about taxes so they can ...
Every four years, during the presidential election season, Republican candidates criticize the abuses of the IRS and the complexity of the tax code. This time is no different. Sometimes Republicans ...
Last Friday evening, the Christians for Liberty Austin Chapter met to watch Wait Till It’s Free, a documentary produced by Colin Gunn of Indoctrination and Captivated. Running with the ...
For those of you who did not watch President Obama’s State of the Union address, you can read a transcript here, as I have. I neither watched it nor the ...
I had the opportunity to read an advance copy of my friend Jeffrey Tucker’s new book Bit by Bit: How P2P is Freeing the World, and I wanted to share ...
The past 100 years of mostly free markets have witnessed unprecedented advances that allow millions to enjoy life in ways our ancestors could not fathom. From communications to transportation, we ...
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