Lucratively failing upward is just about the only career path in war advocacy. The case of warhawk Jeffrey Goldberg.
Source: Glenn Greenwald on Why War is the First Choice of the Ruling Class – LRC Blog
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Glenn Greenwald on Why War is the First Choice of the Ruling Class
22
Jun
Elizabeth Warren’s Antitrust Crusade
19
Jun
Elizabeth Warren has made antitrust a major public policy issue in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. She has argued that several high-tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook are just too big and that they should be broken up by the Justice Department in a major antitrust initiative. Let’s be clear. Using antitrust regulation to break up large companies is an economic and civil liberties nightmare. Those who advocate such policies always fall victim to what Friedrich Hayek termed the “fatal conceit; that is, the assumption that regulators (and the courts) somehow know better than market participants … Continue reading →
Source: Elizabeth Warren’s Antitrust Crusade – LewRockwell
Fed rate cut could come sooner than some expect, but not yet
17
Jun
The inflationists are going to give the markets another shot in the arm? Will it work?
Source: Fed rate cut could come sooner than some expect, but not yet
There Is No Neutral Tax: Lessons from the the Amazon HQ2 “Subsidy”
15
Jun
Capitalism breathes through those loopholes . ~Ludwig von Mises
Source: There Is No Neutral Tax: Lessons from the the Amazon HQ2 “Subsidy”
The Generals Won’t Save Us From the Next War
14
Jun
The brass are careerists, never punished for their mistakes, quietly assenting to the latest doomed interventions.
Source: The Generals Won’t Save Us From the Next War
America’s Economic Commissar of Trade
14
Jun
In this he is no less of an economic tyrant than, say, Nicolas Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela. He, too, rules by command and decree.
Source: America’s Economic Commissar of Trade