POLITICS

Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty.

Besides abandoning DEI programs, what should companies do then if they want to achieve long-term success?

Argentina’s budget cuts have generated eye-popping results: lower inflation, higher wages, and the nation’s first budget surplus in 12 years.

Privatization of the Veterans Health Administration would improve health care for veterans and nonveterans alike.

The people of Georgia, among the most wonderful in the world, are being let down by their own country’s appeasement of Russia.

By decentralizing disaster relief, we can build a system that is more effective and more in line with the principles of federalism and limited government — principles that have been proven to lead to greater prosperity for all.

The moral code capitalism rests on is rational egoism, first identified by Aristotle and further developed by others, most extensively by Ayn Rand.

The Republicans need to show that (1) the Democrats, not businessmen, are responsible for rising prices and that (2) what is needed to end rising prices is not price controls but the gold standard.

Any politician who supports the “net zero” agenda is working to make gasoline prices much higher.

The failure to distinguish between economic power and political power leads people to believe that large corporations have grown through coercion.

The “New Right” faction argues for increased government intervention in the economy, protectionist measures, and the strengthening of monopoly labor unions.

This politicization of personal choice is the essence of statism. In “The Roots of War,” Ayn Rand explained statism’s results: “The degree of statism in a country’s political system, is the degree to which it breaks up the country into rival gangs and sets men against one another.”