Ryan McMaken

Last week, we looked at the weakness of the job market that belies all the happy talk from the administration about employment.

FacebookTwitter Frédéric Bastiat is well known for his radical free-market positions as expressed in his still-famous book The Law and in insightful essays such as “ That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.” Joseph Schumpeter called Bastiat “the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived.”

Unless you work for a bank or the government, you may not have noticed that yesterday was a federal holiday—Juneteenth—commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. This is a perfectly good thing to celebrate, of course, but alas, as Connor O'Keeffe has recently noted , since the day was declared a federal holiday in 2021, it has largely been used by leftwing groups to push ever larger amounts of government intervention in favor of the Left's favorite interest groups.

Yesterday, we looked at how the Business Employment Dynamics (BED) report showed job losses last year while the much-reported and much-touted monthly

Unless you work for a bank or the government, you may not have noticed that yesterday was a federal holiday—Juneteenth—commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. This is a perfectly good thing to celebrate, of course, but alas, as Connor O’Keeffe has recently noted, since the day was declared a federal holiday in 2021, it has largely been used by leftwing groups to push ever larger amounts of government intervention in favor of the Left’s favorite interest groups. For example, among the “property is theft” crowd, the end of chattel slavery is framed as merely a small part of … Continue reading →

Within minutes of the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump, observers were asking how the assassin managed to gain a clear shot of Donald

According to the most recent report from the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics , the US economy added 206,000 jobs during June while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.1 percent.

The use of "democracy" as a propaganda term can be seen in the way that it is used in the same way as "revolutionary" by Marxist regimes. It's just code for

he empty skirt Democrat candidate has no base of her own. Mises notes that "her 'base' is the technocracy itself." Further, America has "degenerated into the ideal technocracy—from the technocrat’s viewpoint" because all substantive decisions are made by unelected Technocrats.

President Biden has not been seen in public since announcing he would not seek re-election on Sunday. Biden’s “resignation” was nothing more than a text-only post on Twitter/X—and we know that the president does not manage his own social media accounts. There has been no video of the president making an announcement, and the White House is apparently planning no press conference or official act of any kind. Biden has not been seen by anyone except his inner circle in days. (We can contrast this situation with Lyndon Johnson’s televised address announcing his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign.) This is, in the … Continue reading →