The Sheriff Revolt Over New Gun Laws Shows Why America Needs More Decentralization

Recently, a dozen sheriffs in Washington State announced that they would refuse to enforce the newly passed referendum 1639 which raised the legal age of purchasing a firearm of any sort to 21, expanded background check requirements, increased the waiting period and mandated weapon storage when not in active use. Predictably, political proponents immediately threatened these sheriffs, […]

How Six Years Of QE Transformed Young Americans Into Socialists

As the bull market turned ten years old last week, it is worth examining whether the efforts of the Federal Reserve, during former Chairman Ben Bernanke’s leadership, to avoid another 1930s-style debt deflationary crash, sparked a new generation of socialists. Bernanke’s quantitative easing (QE), also known as large-scale asset purchases, inflated asset prices and bailed out baby boomers at the political cost of pricing out […]