Economy of $HBD being spent in IRL businesses is now at $61k USD annually from almost zero 6 months ago. Growing steadily. Expect this to triple over next 6-12 months

He doesn’t dispute any of JD Vance’s examples—numerous violations of freedom of conscience & speech. He merely argues that Germany & the rest of Europe remain steadfast in their authoritarian form of Democracy—which is the form where 2 wolves & a sheep vote on what’s for dinner.

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

"If you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" Actually, I fear your definition of 'wrong'.

Sound economics by my friend Victor V Claar 🌴: "The counterproductivity of Florida’s anti-price-gouging law" gulfshorebusiness.com/economic-comme…

The only reasonable "global standard" for #trade is consumer sovereignty. We produce to consume and producers profit from serving consumers, satisfying their wants well. There's no need for bureaucrats to impose special terms--the market is merciless and cannot be bought off.

Austrians are the only economists who realistically incorporate entrepreneurial activity into their theorizing. Economists who derive theory from empirical observations cannot incorporate true entrepreneurship into such theorizing, even if they wanted to, b/c “ceteris paribus”.

Whenever John Tamny visits Oklahoma State Univ. (which is frequently but not enough), I tell students that he is the most independent thinker I know. His recent article about rising U.S. debt levels being a symptom of excessive taxation rather than excessive spending is a brilliant example.

Seen earlier today @ Oklahoma State Univ. campus in #Stillwater. Per Bylund is not only famous on Twitter, he's rocking in real life too!!! #Entrepreneurship #GoPokes

New article at Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) on inequality research with Alex Cartwright, Mark Packard, and Steve Trost, PhD, PE: Inequality and Injustice: Talking Past Each Other journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.546…

This new paper attempts to clear the air around inequality debates, pinpointing the propensity to"talk past each other" by failing to acknowledge the different assumptions we make around the concept of "justice." It's an important read for scholars of all perspectives.

.Mises Institute provided Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson for 2 discussion groups Oklahoma State Univ. last semester. Yesterday, a PhD Candidate who faithfully attended showed me the opening paragraph of his dissertation he will defend next week. It quotes the One Lesson. mises.org/library/book/e…

An exceptionally well-stated exposition of the true dangers of AI by Per Bylund (spoiler—the dangers are not due to super-intelligence, but rather the old well-known computer-science phenomenon of garbage-in garbage-out, GIGO):