Friedrich Hayek

A grieving father recounts his daughter Katie's death in a 2025 car crash caused by an intoxicated driver and criticizes political systems that prioritize ideology over individual lives. He references warnings from economists like Hayek, Friedman, and Sowell about the dangers of concentrated government power.

Bill Pulte, with no intelligence or national-security background, was appointed acting director of national intelligence. The article criticizes his history of misusing government prosecutorial power, including targeting Lisa Cook and Letitia James for minor mortgage document errors. It references Friedrich Hayek's argument from The Road to Serfdom that totalitarian regimes favor individuals willing to commit immoral acts.

The article argues that CPI measurements underestimate true inflation by not accounting for monetary expansion that inflates asset prices rather than consumer goods. Since January 2020, approximately $8 trillion in new M2 money supply has been created, with the gap between M2 growth (24.5% in 2020) and CPI (1.2%) flowing into housing and equity valuations rather than being captured by traditional inflation metrics.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Canvas platform was hacked, prompting the provost to ban exams. A professor responded by assigning work related to Friedrich Hayek. The incident occurred unexpectedly.