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4 weeks ago | 
capitalismmagazine.com | Richard 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 favorite word.
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1 month ago | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
by Donald Trump has said more than once that the most beautiful word in the dictionary is “tariff” and that it is, in fact, his favorite word.
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2 months ago | 
capitalismmagazine.com | Richard Ebeling
Nothing is as enticing as a free lunch. The idea of getting something for nothing surely is appealing to almost everyone. You want a new coat, or a nice meal at your favorite restaurant, or a dream vacation on an exotic island, or….
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2 months ago | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
by Nothing is as enticing as a free lunch. The idea of getting something for nothing surely is appealing to almost everyone. You want a new coat, or a nice meal at your favorite restaurant, or a dream vacation on an exotic island, or…. Well, there is no end to the list of things we would all like to have with no cost attached, with nothing to have to give up to get what we want.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
Washington, D.C., and the nation as a whole are in the midst of a combative chaos. On the one side is President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. On the other side is a large array of politicians, bureaucrats and special-interest groups opposing them.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
One of the great persistent political myths is the illusion that governments have it in their power to manipulate and control the marketplace. One particularly common myth is the widely held belief that government legislation can make things and people worth whatever value those in political authority think they should be worth.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
by George Orwell (1903–1950), the author of the anti-Utopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), has often been quoted as saying, “Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual can believe them.” Whether he, in fact, said it or not, it rings inescapably true.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
by Fifty years ago, on October 9, 1974, what has become known as the Nobel Prize in Economics was announced for that year in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a joint award to Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) and Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992). Many in the economics profession would not have been particularly surprised by Myrdal being declared a recipient.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
by The idea of making a case for “open borders” arouses a great deal of disagreement and disapproval. Open borders, in the minds of some, implies no borders, it is argued and feared. There may be some who oppose the notion of political borders due to their disapproval of any form of government with a geographical area of responsible jurisdiction.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
fff.org | Richard Ebeling
Donald Trump’s reelection as president of the United States has been partly identified with his promise to “close the border” to illegal immigration and the threat of a mass deportation of millions of those who have been living in America, sometimes for almost a lifetime. If this threat is carried out, it would be one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. Classical liberals and libertarians have long argued for the right of freedom of movement.
