In this excerpt from his brilliant Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, Guido Hülsmann illustrates how Carl Menger's experience as a financial journalist led to his developing the revolutionary foundations of the Austrian school of economics.
The Index of Freedom of Education is right, that at the core of freedom in education is the issue of diversity and competition in educational institutions.
Between conflicts with Eastern Europe, and the threat of a Birtish exit, the EU has some real problems.
For the IRS and the federal government in general, the Drug War is just the gift that keeps on giving since the high tax rates can be traced back to a 1980s-era anti-drug law.
Robert Luddy explains today at The American Spectator how the Fed's fixation on promoting price inflation is a big problem.
It’s laudable when we give gifts that are truly ours to give. This should not be confused with giving away the property of others. In either case, if we want more wealth to give away, we have to produce wealth first.
Whether we're talking about central banks or the US Supreme Court, governments everywhere continue to centralize power in the hands of the very few. The problem with this, though, is that successful central planning is impossible and leads to economic chaos.
This little known chart is the Fed's attempt to anticipate a recession in the US economy. The reading from last November is only 3.84%, but that is higher than all but 3 months when a recession did not immediately proceed.
The authors of Crisis Chronicles: The Panic of 1819—America's First Great Economic Crisis have updated their article to explicitly include Rothbard as a source.
