Featuring Walter Block, Ryan McMaken, and Jeff Deist. Special thanks to the Harvey Allison family for making this event possible. Recorded at Seattle’s historic Town Hall on 21 May
Matt Drudge has been applauding Donald Trump’s efforts at preventing companies from locating their production facilities to foreign countries. When Carrier announced it would not be moving 1,000 positions to Mexico, the Drudge headline read: “ AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: CARRIER STAYS ... “ Drudge carried a similar headline when Trump claimed credit for
My thanks to The Lens in Washington state for covering Saturday’s Mises Circle in Seattle , with a lot of attention to my talk on “Three Lies You’ll Hear from the Candidates this Year” . One claim you’re likely to hear during this year’s presidential election cycle is that the U.S. doesn’t spend enough on helping out the poor, compared to other
It looks like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are planning to debate each other . Drudge today is calling it “the debate of the century.” Color me skeptical. If it happens, the debate will provide some entertainment for political junkies, but the areas of disagreement between the two are actually quite small, and the debate is likely to focus on
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new employment data today, and nonfarm payroll employment increased in May be the smallest amount seen in 28 months. For May 2016, there were 144,592,000 payroll jobs in the US, which was up 1.6 percent, or 2.3 million jobs, from May 2015. (These are all not-seasonally-adjusted numbers) That’s the smallest
Meghann Foye, a childless woman, demands that people without children get maternity leave too . The purpose, Foye explains, is to allow all workers the same sort of “self-reflection” that parents of small children apparently enjoy in abundance. Writes Foye: The more I thought about it, the more I came to believe in the value of a “meternity”
Last week, I examined how obesity among low-income households cannot be explained by simply claiming that low-income people don’t have access to healthy food. It is claimed that supermarkets and other places that sell food are too far away from low-income neighborhoods for households to access them. It is assumed that low-income people will eat
There is no doubt that there is a boom going on out there. Unfortunately, it’s just a boom in asset prices, and not in job growth. That means real incomes are going down for people who don’t make a sizable amount of income off assets they own. In other words, for most people, the cost of living is going up while the job situation is stagnating.
Last week, the New York Times featured its latest article implying that the United States has the highest homicide rates in the “developed” world — defining any other country with a higher homicide rate as somehow unfit for comparison to the United States. This is a common tactic among gun control advocates who make claims such as “the US has
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