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Trump’s Iran War Has Already Cost Each American Household $750 By [Kyle Anzalone]( "Posts by Kyle Anzalone") > The credit agency Moody’s has calculated that the war against Iran has cost each American household $750.  > [Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi said](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=24acd794ac&e=4d47a68367) that in under three months of war, the cost of the war against Iran has already offset the additional tax breaks Americans received under President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. “As of May 16th, the bigger tax refunds Americans have received this year no longer cover the higher costs of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel caused by the war,” he wrote on X.  > While the Pentagon has claimed the cost of the war is around $25 billion, Moody’s calculates the costs to Americans are $750 per household or $100 billion in total
The Public Goods Circular Argument https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-goods-circular-argument By Joshua Mawhorter > Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses.
We Must End the TSA 'License to Loot' | The Libertarian Institute By James Bovard > For more than a decade, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with [$100 or more](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=266a243042&e=4d47a68367) in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. > More than 10,000 travelers have been stripped of their money by TSA agents since 2014. But the feds almost never bother filing criminal charges against the victims of asset forfeiture. TSA considers itself generous when it “permits the passenger to continue on to their destination”—after taking away their money. > Since 2019, the Institute for Justice, a non-profit constitutional law firm, has been fighting this TSA abuse. Their class action lawsuit was finally argued in federal court in Pittsburgh in February but no decision has been announced.
Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand | The Libertarian Institute By Matt Wolfson > American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of “the uniparty” and the media its notion of “partisanship.” Through the “partisan” lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the “big five” weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful “progressive” or “Left” nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. > But the “uniparty” theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality. Indeed, Democrats are as in hock to corporate and military interests as Republicans, and the newer “New Democratic” Party they are promising as a replacement to Donald Trump is his mirror image—there to serve the same interests under a different and deceptive cultural guise. Tracing the development of the modern Democrats from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and how that development shapes them today, shows that every sector of the party—from “neoliberals” to “progressives” to the Left—is de facto arbitered by military corporate interests which determine its policies and propaganda.
The Ox That's Breaking Your Fantasy Map ABOUT THIS VIDEO > Stop inventing your politics and start discovering them through the lens of medieval logistics. In this deep dive into worldbuilding, we move past the aesthetics of banners and bloodlines to look at the cold, hard math that built the feudal system: The Supply Chain. > Feudalism is just logistics wearing a crown. > Most worldbuilders place castles based on "vibes," but historical power was a solution to the Oxen Paradox. If an ox eats 10% of its cargo every fifty miles, your kingdom isn't defined by the King’s will—it’s defined by how far a sack of grain can travel before it’s worthless. > In this video, you will learn how to: > Read your terrain: Identify the four critical nodes—Chokepoints, Junctions, Surplus Zones, and Landlocked Specialists—that dictate where every barony must exist. > Utilize the Three-Day Rule: Understand the physics of the "Caloric Battery" and why river access provides a 4,000% energy subsidy to power. > Create Structural Conflict: Learn why Upstream "Source Lords" are naturally rebellious while Downstream "Gatekeeper Lords" are desperate diplomats. > Whether you are writing a low-fantasy epic or designing a complex TTRPG setting, this framework will help you move away from "costume humans" and toward a world that feels inevitable because it is rooted in causality. > Give your lords a job description, or delete them. I love this sort of thing. Geography is destiny.
Lasers Revealed A Lost World Under The Amazon > The Amazon was one of the least explored frontiers on Earth… until now. Scientists are scanning the rainforest with advanced LiDAR technology to reveal lost structures hidden below the canopy for centuries. Could they finally uncover the legendary lost city of El Dorado?
“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism https://mises.org/mises-wire/creating-nation-declaration-independence-and-nation-anachronism By Joshua Mawhorter > Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era.
There Is No Reprieve in the Fed’s War on Savings https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-reprieve-feds-war-savings By Attila Rebak > The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.
Who Owns the Airwaves and the Sea? https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-owns-airwaves-and-sea By Thiago V. S. Coelho > For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.
Would Oil Bring a Resource Curse in Jamaica? https://mises.org/mises-wire/would-oil-bring-resource-curse-jamaica By Lipton Matthews > The possibility that there may be offshore oil deposits in Jamaica has brought some to say that finding oil would actually be harmful to the nation’s economy and social fabric. Jamaican Lipton Matthews takes issue with that claim.
The Big Apple’s Woes Are Not Just the Result of One Election https://mises.org/mises-wire/big-apples-woes-are-not-just-result-one-election By Gregory Bresiger > Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to make things even worse.
The Wicked Witch of Eccles Hates Sound Money https://mises.org/mises-wire/wicked-witch-eccles-hates-sound-money By George Ford Smith > The Federal Reserve might be experiencing a change of leadership, but the process of currency debasement that began more than a century ago continues.
After 75 Years, Human Action Is Still the Standard for Understanding Economics https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/after-75-years-human-action-still-standard-understanding-economics > David Gordon reviews *The Influence and Significance of* Human Action *After 75 Years* edited by Joseph T. Salerno. He recommends this new book and *Human Action*.
Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 84: Choose your own Adventure • Listen on Fountain https://www.fountain.fm/episode/DNwerUlMdP0DhNfQQPIq > Undisciplined and GrayRuby are joined by a guest. They can hear the guest but you can't. What did the guest say? It's up to you! Apparently we only have to endure one tech failure per episode. At least the episode is up on time and we got our AI editing tools back.