But why did she bring it up? It could be the Iran war is going so badly that the White House would rather we talk about Epstein instead. 

Mises Institute Senior Fellow was featured last month at the AEI’s symposium on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Alex speaks throughout the panel discussion, which can be viewed here. 

For centuries, Austrian economists diagnosed the root cause of business cycles with remarkable precision: credit expansion untethered from real savings. Mises demonstrated it, Hayek formalized it, and history confirmed it repeatedly. Yet, despite that theoretical clarity, one question remained unanswered in practice: Is a credit system structurally incapable of artificial expansion even possible? The emergence of collateralized lending protocols in decentralized finance suggests, for the first time, that the answer might be yes.

[How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky. (Other Press, 2012; x + 243 pp.)]

The true total of US national security spending in 2027 will be far beyond the already record-shattering $1.5 trillion military budget President Trump has requested.

Periods of crisis reveal something unsettling about human behavior. Faced with uncertainty, individuals and institutions alike tend to accept measures that would otherwise be unthinkable. Restrictions on movement, suspension of rights, and centralized decision-making often emerge not gradually, but almost effortlessly, as if they were the natural response to danger.

Accurate words and definitions always matter, however, it is often underappreciated how important this is in the study of history, especially regarding context-dependent words and meanings. A common historical error is anachronism—a chronological inconsistency in which an object, person, or concept is inappropriately retrojected back into a time when it did not exist.