Interventionism

Mark Thornton explains why Obamacare is simply one more step along the road to health care serfdom.

Liberty-loving people are right to be appalled by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, just about every evil in the legislation has already been inflicted on the market through fifty years of state destruction of the healthcare market.

Last week in The American Specta

Do we really want central banks that reward insolvency and encourage inefficiency?

As an academic and economist, few things are as frustrating and mind-boggling as the fervor with which people embrace and display their economic il

Christopher Westley reports from this year’s National Association of Business Economists Convention.

Christopher Westley reports from this year's National Association of Business Economists Convention. He finds that the mainstream's intellectual blinders are firmly in place, and that the “fatal conceit” Friedrich Hayek wrote about in 1988 is alive and well in 2014.

Shawn Ritenour writes in The P

The Federal Reserve manipulates interest rates -bringing rates so artificially low that borrowing money is at greatly reduced cost. Housing developers saw they could build everywhere.

This lecture by Walter Block was presented at the 2012 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.