New digital currency backed by gold
Gold backed digital currency People often ask me how gold can be used as a currency, since it would be almost impossible to create a coin that would be small enough to conduct everyday transactions,...
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The Ever-Tightening Noose of Airport Security
How afraid are you when you get on a plane? More importantly, how afraid should you be? Ever since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, fear of flying has been a constant presence in the...
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Can a Leopard Change Its Spots?
Last month an article entitled “The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth” was published in the New York Times. On first glance I thought the author, Tyler Cowen, was going to offer a...
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Canada Versus Crooners
Government regulations destroy many things that are important to us. Licensing laws prevent us from practicing our chosen profession. Taxes rob us of our hard earned money. Lately, the food police...
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Metal Machine Parenting
It’s the stuff of nightmares. Metal demons frankensteined into being for the purpose of molding children’s behavior to fit the government’s definition of “acceptable.” Is this the plot of a low-budget...
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The Mighty Return of the Twinkie: A One-Year Retrospective
Reprinted from Liberty.me It was November 2012 when the bankrupt Hostess company pulled the Twinkie from production and sent many generations of sponge-cake lovers, including me, into panic. Then only...
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Lies for Empire
In his provocative cover story “Why Liberalism Means Empire” for The American Conservative, Daniel McCarthy makes a rather astounding claim: that liberalism, or rather laissez faire secular order,...
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The Airlines Work for Uncle Sam
Reprinted from Casey Research Anyone who’s traveled by air this year knows airfares are up, scheduling is tight, and the seats are even tighter. You’re thinking the airlines must be printing money,...
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Rebels Will Inherit the Earth
Reprinted from Liberty.me To get to the coolest bar in Chicago — recently voted the best new bar in the U.S. — you turn down a small alley and walk half-way down until you get to a small blue light....
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How Government Uses “Efficiency” as an Excuse to Steal
Reprinted from Mises.org Scarcity makes efficiency — getting the most value from given resources —important. The more efficient individuals are, the more they benefit from their actions. That’s why...
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The Case Against a Maximum Wage
The minimum wage has been such a hot topic of debate over the last year or so that journalists and commentators have apparently gotten sick of it and are instead proposing still crazier ideas of ways...
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Conservatives Embrace Disparate Impact?
Libertarians know politics is a poor man’s way to effect long-lasting change. Voting certainly brings immediate results. But it doesn’t change attitudes. It takes a sustained didactic campaign to...
View ArticleWho Cares for Toronto’s Sidewalks?
In Toronto an important debate is starting to stir about who controls the sidewalks – the city or the owners of the adjacent properties. Sparking this debate is a bicycle owner, Lisa Ferguson, who...
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Justice in Nova Scotia?
Justice has finally been served. No, I’m not referring to the ongoing strife in Ferguson, Missouri. Neither am I referring to the plight of the Yazidis and Christians in Iraq. I’m talking about...
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What If We Could Sell Our Kidneys?
According to the Kidney Foundation of Canada, one in 10 Canadians has kidney disease. Moreover, the number of Canadians being treated for kidney failure has tripled in the past two decades – and each...
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Judgement in Ferguson
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the misinterpretation of classic Shakespeare line: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Uttered by Dick the Butcher in “Henry VI, Part...
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Quebec Unions Fight Tooth and Nail for their Lavish Pension Plans
When unions see/feel that their “entitlements” are “under attack”, they fight tooth and nail to keep them. We saw how ugly it can become in Michigan in the midst of the debate for right-to-work....
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The Moral Blindness of Government Agents
Reprinted from Liberty.me Those of us who have watched the scenes in Ferguson, Missouri, have been stunned at the brutality of the police. Most striking is their presumption that they have total...
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You Can’t Run an Economy with Spreadsheets
Reprinted from Mises.org Argentina’s economic minister, Axel Kicillof, has become famous for his assertion that it is possible to centrally manage the economy now because we have spreadsheets such as...
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The Death of Minarchism
Reprinted from Liberty.me As incredible as it seems, the bourgeoisie seem to be turning against the police. In the wake of Ferguson, polls say that about half of us don’t trust them. Obviously, blacks...
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