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The new encyclical from Pope Francis, due to be officially released tomorrow, is sure to contain at least one claim that the rich are somehow getti

Robert Higgs writes: 

Thanks to the tireless efforts of translator Tatsuya Iwakura,

The new issue of Economica features Tomasz Mickiewicz’s tho

Magna Carta turns 800 years old today.

Joe Salerno earlier mentioned that Texas might create a

James Pethokoukis at The Week suggests that Hillary Clinton will win because the economy is so good. In the other hand, something bad could happen such as Janet Yellen reading "too much austrian economics."

But just because the Trans Pacific Partnership deal may be dead for now doesn't mean it won't be back in modified form. In any case, as I noted earlier this month in Mises Daily, we need real free trade, not the latest global deal for state-controlled trade and regulation. 

Over the past two weeks, the top five most-read Mises Daily articles are: 

Choosing between two candidates is analogous going to Walmart and being presented with two shopping carts already filled with items. Everyone will leave the store with the same cart of goods. Each cart contains products that a person may want and products that one wouldn't choose to have, but the voter is not able to take anything out of either cart.