Why We Should Care That Tariffs Are Taxes
by David Hebert In a recent American Compass article, Michael Lind asks “So What If Tariffs Are Taxes?” In doing so, he defends the position of so many on the ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution: 1937–1944
By Rob Natelson Crisis and Depression In October 1929, a financial bubble broke. As always happens when financial bubbles break, people lost a great deal and hardship ensued. But bubbles ...
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Bringing Back Gold Clause Contracts: A Challenge to the Fed
By: Mike Maharrey One of the ways the government maintains its fiat money system is by throwing up legal and regulatory roadblocks to those wanting to use real money. Bringing ...
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From Nixon to Biden: How the US Turned Banks into Spy Networks
By: Mike Maharrey “Americans do not have financial privacy, really at all. We have this illusion of financial privacy.” Cato policy analyst Nicholas Anthony summed it up bluntly in an ...
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The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
By: John Whitehead The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is ...
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Executive Order 6102: A Deep Dive into FDR’s Gold Confiscation Program
By: Mike Maharrey Franklin D. Roosevelt’s gold confiscation order in 1933 attempted to remove most gold from private hands. But due to widespread noncompliance, it ultimately failed to accomplish that ...
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The Tyranny of the Majority
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of ...
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John Adams: Patriot and Tyrant?
By: Mike Maharrey Many revere John Adams as a great patriot. Others view him as a big-government tyrant. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. Adams was a prominent leader during ...
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Countering Relentless Propaganda and Widespread Ignorance
By: Michael Boldin Thomas Jefferson warned us. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” The people ...
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Growing US Debt Menaces Liberty and Prosperity
By: Ron Paul Congress’ top priority this fall will be passing legislation funding the government and avoiding a “shutdown.” As of this writing, it appears unlikely that the Republican-controlled House will ...
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