Connor O'Keeffe
@ConnorMOKeeffe
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The political class is a coalition of groups with overlapping interests, not a single homogeneous group with a unified set of interests. That's important to understand.
11:00-11:45 p.m. CT | LIVE Radio Rothbard - @ryanmcmaken and Salerno 12:00–12:45 p.m. | LIVE Human Action @BobMurphyEcon 1:00–1:30 p.m. | Rothbardian Insights on the Political Economy of Mass Media - @ConnorMOKeeffe Mises.org/live
The Democrats are performing an autopsy of their 2024 electoral failures, but without mentioning Biden, the Harris campaign, their alienation of certain demographics, or their polarizing positions. | @ConnorMOKeeffe mises.org/mises-wire/dem…
1:00–1:45 p.m. CT | The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle - Cwik 2:00–2:45 p.m. | Competition and Monopoly | DiLorenzo 3:00–3:45 p.m. | Minimum Wage Thornton | Wolfe Lecture Hall 4:00–4:45 p.m. |Tariffs Versus Free Trade - @DrPatrickNewman Mises.org/live
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Could this finally get some momentum now that MAGA is focused on the Fed's absurd headquarters renovation costs?
Rand Paul introduces bill to audit the Federal Reserve trib.al/2voMGDl
My first article for The National Interest is out now! @Alex___Stevens and I talk carbon taxes, climate modeling, and public choice in the link below! nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-wo…
The split over Epstein tells us something important about the MAGA movement
Excellent take on why #MAGA aren't the sycophants that #leftists insist from @mises contributor @ConnorMOKeeffe mises.org/mises-wire/spl…
I wrote this piece for @freethepeople three years ago now (link below). Still, its thesis remains: the war party is attempting to delegitimize opposition to its preferred foreign policies with its own simplistic history, by amplifying edge cases, and guilt by association. ⤵️
An emerging coalition of conspiracy theorists, cranks, and the craven can best be understood as the 1939 Project—a decentralized, right-wing, online analogue to the left’s 1619 Project. While differing in content and cultural context, both initiatives aim to radically revise…
It was never about Assad.
There is no Iranian influence in Syria today. Yet, Israel just bombed Damascus. The new Syria, led by a frmr AlQaeda leader, has shamefully done everything to appease Israel. But only complete emasculation is acceptable to Israel. Such is the reality of Israeli hegemony.
When President Trump declared the Epstein case closed, many of his supporters in MAGA objected. But Trump opponents claim that MAGA is a monolithic movement beholden only to Trump. This incident tells us something else. | @ConnorMOKeeffe mises.org/mises-wire/spl…
Politicians use our money to worsen problems that they created earlier with our money.
Tariffs were never going to crash the economy or usher in hyperinflation on their own. What they do is leave the country as a whole poorer than it would be without them. Meaning, at best, the gains from Trump's best economic policies get diminished.
Doing the same thing in search of different results.
President Trump will announce an aggressive plan to arm Ukraine on Monday that is expected to include offensive weapons -Axios Two sources said that the plan may include missiles with the range to hit deep into Russia, including Moscow (~300 miles, JASSM could fit that role.)
The state can fund endless foreign wars in an afternoon, but unsealing the Epstein files? Sorry, that’s “complicated.” Funny how accountability always gets lost in the shuffle of empire. @RyanMcMaken @ThoBishop @ConnorMOKeeffe
Is Trump gonna do something to win his base back? Or is he gonna just keep screwing them over for the next three and a half years? youtube.com/watch?v=4ictqS…