Stephen Anderson

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04/04/2025 Power & Market Stephen Anderson

President Trump issued separate presidential proclamations to increase tariffs to 25 percent on all US steel imports and raise tariffs from 10 to 25 percent on all aluminum imports effective February...

State to State Secession Movements

03/12/2025 Power & Market Stephen Anderson

Episode 2604 of The Tom Woods Show released on February 8, 2025, entitled, “ Is the U.S. Headed for Breakup (in the Long Run)?” interviewed Ryan McMaken, Senior Editor of The Mises Institute. The main...

Say “No” to Nuclear Power Interventions

03/01/2025 Power & Market Stephen Anderson

An August 17, 2024 article, at oilprice.com, entitled, “A New Era for Nuclear Power in the US” describes US government funding and intervening to reopen closed or closing nuclear power electric...

Media

FISA: How a Watergate-Era “Reform” Turned into a Mechanism of Massive State Surveillance

09/04/2024 Stephen Anderson

The flurry of post-Watergate “reforms” supposedly were passed to counteract government abuse of citizens. Not surprisingly, the FISA program, which was aimed at reducing internal government spying became the means of massive growth of the surveillance state.

Chop the Federal CHIPS Act

07/12/2024 Stephen Anderson

For all of the media ballyhoo about the CHIPS Act, it really is a page out of the old five-year plans from the Soviet Union. The CHIPS Act will have the same success as befell the Soviets.

Personal Medical Bankruptcy: Made in DC

04/09/2024 Stephen Anderson

When the government wants to make something more affordable, that usually means new subsidies, laws, and regulations that drive up the real price. Higher medical prices will mean more medical bankruptcies.

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