Personal Medical Bankruptcy: Made in DC
When the government wants to make something more affordable, that usually means new subsidies, laws, and regulations that drive up the real price. Higher medical prices will mean more medical bankruptcies.
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Self-Ownership and the Right to Self-Defense
The right to self-defense is a crucial component of our rights of self-ownership. Wanjiru Njoya explains the details.
Hazlitt Against Keynes on Unemployment and Wages: A Lesson for Modern Macroeconomics
Henry Hazlitt's The Failure of the New Economics remains the best criticism of J.M. Keynes's General Theory.
Bureaucracy: Applying Mises’s Insights to Our Present Day
Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
The Money Supply Fell for the Fifteenth Month in a Row as Full-Time Jobs Disappear
The money supply has fallen repeatedly, year-over-year, but in recent months the total money supply has flattened out and deflation has disappeared.
Looking Back at the Crossroads: Liberty or Socialism
Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
A Tale of Two Bureaucracies
Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Bureaucracy and Grove City College: How One College Resisted the Bureaucratization of Higher Education
Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing
A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual, the journalistic “experts” got it backward.
How State Intervention Fueled Haiti’s Descent into Chaos
As the official government in Haiti loses control, many are calling it a failed state. Crises like this are often evoked to discredit libertarians. But blame for Haiti’s current plight lies with the actions of states, not the absence of them.
