Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Barro’s reasoning and…
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Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute and Christopher Calton of the Independent Institute talk about why politicians want higher home prices. Even Trump now admits he wants higher home prices,…
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World News
Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions…
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While the political climate demands allegiance to one side or another, a more reasoned view can be found through libertarian principles, supported by the words of Murray Rothbard.
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Jeffrey A. Singer This evening at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, President Trump announced the launch of TrumpRx, the government-run direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug purchasing platform. Essentially, TrumpRx will act less as a…
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Brent Skorup The Washington Post recently reported on an alarming story about a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) administrative subpoena served to Google. According to the Post, a Pennsylvania man…
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Editor's PickInvesting
Tariffs by Unpublished Memo: Lawsuit Exposes How Opaque Enforcement Compounds the US Tariff Complexity Problem
Scott Lincicome, Clark Packard, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon We have previously discussed how the Trump administration’s tariffs impose high costs on Americans, not only by raising taxes and prices but also by…
From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants, the subordinates.
Patrick G. Eddington At this point, there’s only one member of the United States Senate who consistently tries to keep the US Intelligence Community (USIC or IC for short) on…
Bob applies Mises’ taxonomy of money and the regression theorem to Bitcoin, asking whether it should be classified as commodity or fiat money and whether Austrian theory really rules out…