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Quantitative finance analysts, or “quants” in the financial jargon, played a prominent role in the subprime crisis.

Even as Greenspan is condemned and blamed for the economic crisis, the “libertarian” Cato Institute now rushes to his defense.

Jeffrey Tucker offers insights into Greenspan's role in the 2008 economic crash.

The only redeeming feature of our political process is that we peacefully accomplished an ideological shift -- a coup of sorts -- that in almost ev

A remorseful Dr.

At first blush, incarceration would seem to involve a loss of physical mobility – you have to stay in the prison all day and all night.

I don’t know what it is about the Nobel Prize that makes economists fall in love with John Maynard Keynes, but once again I see a Nobel winne

When I saw the title of this Cato podcast–“Intellectual Property Versus Reason”

Our dear friend Larry Sechrest, professor of economics at Sul Ross University, and a long-time writer and speaker for economic liberty, died this m

Michael Rozeff has a surprising analysis where he lays out a few convincing arguments that gold prices are too high right now, relative to other prices.