Buy More Luxury Gifts: It’s Good for Your Neighbors in Need
This Christmas, countless workers will profit when others spend freely on "unnecessary" luxury goods.
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Venezuela Didn’t Need High Oil Prices to Prosper before Chavismo
In the era of relative market freedom, many of Venezuela's best years were during times of low oil prices. Trying to blame Venezuelan socialism's failure on oil prices only highlights how fragile economies are without markets.
We’ll Need Property Rights in a World of Gene-Edited Humans
A respect for property rights will become all the more important in the age of "designer babies" and "gene editing."
The ECB Creates Jobs for Central Bankers Instead of Safeguarding Financial Stability
Not surprisingly, policies adopted by central bankers often serve the interests of the central banks themselves.
Sweatshops Today, Decent Work Tomorrow
The ticket to the UN’s ideal of decent work is not regulation and legislation, but economic liberalization.
The Problem with “Velocity of Money”
Contrary to popular thinking, the velocity of money is not a key factor in understanding price inflation.
Venezuela’s Crisis: What’s Oil Got to Do with It?
Oil prices did not cause the Venezuelan crisis. Nor can oil now be its cure.
Richard Cantillon, the Most Important Economist You’ve Never Heard Of
Our inflationary financial system benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Ignoring the Bureaucracy Isn’t the Same as Dismantling It
The Trump administration has done little to undercut the federal government's huge bureaucracy.
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This year, we’re giving away booklets of Hoppe’s essay “Social Democracy” to all our supporters who give $25 or more.
