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A Democratic state lawmaker in Illinois has introduced legislation requiring unvaccinated residents to pay out-of-pocket for healthcare services. It’ s all part of an effort to come up with new and creative ways to punish people who refuse to get the covid jab. WBBM Radio in Chicago reports: Carroll’ s legislation would amend the state’ s insurance code so that“ a...

During a September 30, 2021, U.S. Senate hearing, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., went head to head with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Paul called out Becerra for ignoring the science of natural immunity. Becerra, who is neither a medical doctor nor a scientist — Paul pointed out that Becerra doesn’t even have a degree in science — is traveling the country calling people “flat-earthers” for believing that if they’ve already had COVID they don’t need the vaccine, Paul s...

Inflation isn’t a supply chain problem; it’s a money problem.

The mess in the labor market is largely a product of government policy.

Fri, 14 May 2021 14:40 UTC © The Mises InstituteThe Treasury department has issued its spending and revenue report for April 2021, and its clear the US government is headed toward another record-breaking year for deficits. According to the report, the US federal government collected $439.2 billion in revenue during April 2021, which was a sizable improvement over April 2020 and over March 2021. Indeed, April 2021s revenue total was the largest since July of last year when the federal governmen...

Montana governor Greg Gianforte has had enough of President Joe Biden’s covid relief bills. Instead of paying people to stay unemployed, he’s giving them a bonus for finding work. After scrapping what he called the “impractical government mandates” imposed by former governor Steve... Montana governor Greg Gianforte has had enough of President Joe Biden’s covid relief bills. Instead of paying people to stay unemployed, he’s giving them a bonus for finding work. After scrapping what h...

Executive Magazine A contrarian analysis and comment Photo Credit: Greg Demarque After a year of living face to face with SARS-CoV-2, it is high time to recognize the relationship existentially and give credit where credit is due. The coronavirus is confronting our species with questions and challenges that we never have consciously dealt with. For starters, humankind has not really inquired in the past if a virus had equal existential standing to us or might be superior to us in any way. We fu...

Readers of the Mises Wire are no doubt familiar with the negative consequences of central banking and the inflationary capacity of fiat currency and how such a system drives malinvestment and leads to boom-bust cycles. Not only does the business cycle lead to the misallocation of resources from their natural ends of the structure of production, but it also drives resources into financialization, rather than the “real” economy. This financialization, which has been taking place since at lea...

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:04 UTC The official slogan of this years Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was "America UnCancelled," and the conference featured a slate of topics confined to such controversial viewpoints as "Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights ... and We Love It" and "California Socialism: Promising Heaven, Delivering Hell." Fitting for the single largest annual event for Americas conservative movement, CPAC was hosted at a corporate hotel that strictly enforced a Democra...

Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because their four-year-old autistic son was not wearing a mask. The family was removed from the plane even though the boy’s doctor had decided the boy should be exempted from mask mandates because the... Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because their four-year-old autistic son was not wearing a mask. The family was removed from the plane e...