Opinion
The tippinsights opinion section reflects articles where our individual authors or individual groups (from anywhere on the political spectrum) utilize our data to make compelling arguments.
Trump’s Fact-free Diatribe On The Price Of Oil
The 2025 shutdowns at the LyondellBasell Houston and Phillips 66 Los Angeles refineries cut total US refining capacity by about 400,000 barrels per day
Want Lower Gas Prices? Don’t Elect A Democrat
As a reader service, we compiled monthly data on real (inflation-adjusted) gas prices starting in 1977 – the year Jimmy Carter took office.
Trump Talks The Talk And Walks The Path Of War On Iran. So Does Netanyahu
From Trump’s UN General Assembly address where he said that Iran must either capitulate after the US midterm elections after which he threatens to issue his ultimatum...
The Invisible Heroes Of Our Tradition
The mostly faceless people who make scholarship materially possible are always too absent from discussions of intellectual history
Can Artificial Intelligence Solve Hayek’s Knowledge Problem?
Modern AI systems can analyze data at a scale no individual human being could approach.
Libertarian Realism As Foreign Policy
What follows is therefore best understood not as an attempt to invent a new school of foreign-policy thought, but as a theoretical refinement of a distinctly Rothbardian-Raimondian insight.
Social Security Is Just A Transfer Payment From Workers To Retirees
Indeed, the federal courts have been very clear that there is not any sort of legally binding contract between the federal government and current recipients of Social Security payments.
Get Off My Lawn (And Out of My Lungs): A Property-Rights View Of Pollution
To distinguish myself from traditional environmental approaches, I am opposed to bureaucracy and federal regulations being the primary way of fixing this problem.
Debt Arising from Central Bank Credit Leads To Economic Crises
This decline, in turn, is likely to cause a decline in the prices of goods and services, called deflation, and, in turn, produces an economic slump. According to Fisher, the trigger for this could be a shock such as a large decline in the stock market.
Government Should Liquidate Itself
Social Security is a claim on a person’s income—any working person. Did this person agree to it? Today, it would strike most people as strange even to ask the question.
Equality Before The Law Does Not Mean Equality Of Subjective Feelings
The court in Brown believed that black children inevitably feel inferior if they are not permitted to attend the same schools as white children. They deemed racial integration to be essential in making people feel that they are in fact socially equal.
Here’s How Ohio Republicans Fare Ahead of Election, According to Top Pollster
On Saturday, The New York Times/Siena College poll on battlegrounds was released, showing a shift in whom Ohio voters are supporting for senator and governor.
Nunn Wants To Debate. Trone Garriott Wants To Fundraise.
According to a transcript of a phone call between the two campaigns, obtained by the Daily Signal, Trone Garriott’s campaign says she does not have one hour in the next 22 days to debate Nunn.
Radical Decentralization: Liechtenstein’s Quiet Revolution
Economically, the finding is easy to explain: small political units are not autarkic; they compete internationally for talent and capital.