Peter's Blog

As wealth inequality continues to rise, many are quick to blame billionaires for society’s ills. However, focusing on individual wealthy people obscures the underlying institutional factors that shape economic outcomes. Rather than vilifying the rich, we should examine how government policies and central bank interventions create perverse incentives that concentrate wealth and distort markets. The […]

Many on the left and right speak about the government as if it’s equivalent to a business. This rhetoric, deployed to justify the seizure of productive capital or make the state “more efficient,” obscures the fact that business and government are fundamentally different. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions […]

Emennet Pasargad is an Iranian cyber company, thought to be in the pay of the Iranian government. To thousands of unsuspecting Americans, however, they portrayed themselves as violent members of the Proud Boys. And they came with a threat: “Vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you.”