“Consumers don't produce inflation. Producers don't produce inflation. Inflation is produced only by too much government spending and too much government creation of money, and nothing else.” — Milton Friedman 🫳🎤

Via the Austrian Economics Center | Hayek Institut

Why did Ludwig von Mises love gold? He loved it because politicians hate it. Gold has one specific virtue: It cannot be printed by a government bureau. It is a geological constraint on the state's ability to rob you. Mises viewed the gold standard as part of the Bill of Rights.

When Congress votes to increase spending, they’re voting to increase your taxes, because you’ll pay for the additional spending through inflation and debt and taxes later, if not through taxes today. I’m the only Member of the House who hasn’t voted to increase your taxes.

Prohibition didn't stop drinking. It created the mafia. The war on drugs didn't stop drug use. It filled prisons and funded cartels. Banning encryption won't stop secrets. It'll just make criminals out of citizens. This is the oldest pattern in civilization: ban a fundamental

To lower gas prices, Trump will issue 30-day waivers for the Jones Act, allowing foreign tankers to supply refiners on the East Coast with fuel from the Gulf Coast & other U.S. locations. Since this is an admission that the Jones Act raises gas prices, why not repeal it entirely?

I support Thomas Massie for Congress. He's effective, he's principled, and he's the most fiscally conservative member of the House.

PSA

Between 2007 and 2012, scientists drilled deep into Greenland's ice as part of the NEEM project to uncover the climate story of the last interglacial around 125,000 years ago. What they found puts today's climate panic into perspective. Back then, Greenland was around 8C

The goal isn't better government. It's less government.

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. (...)" — Ayn Rand

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