The Faculty of Political Economy of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, in cooperation with the Master Programme in Economics of the Austrian School, is holding its tenth annual conference on Austrian Economics. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from around the world who are conducting research within this intellectual tradition.
As is becoming clearer from President Trump’s own statements and those of his staff, along with press reporting, the US has launched a major war without the input of the experts we pay to advise the President on such matters. The State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NSA were simply bypassed because, as White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, President Trump “had a feeling” Iran would attack.
On average, respondents forecast 1.8 rate cuts this year, a more dovish outlook than the Fed futures market, which has priced in only one cut.
“Freedom to roam” is marketed as a wholesome civic ideal: fresh air, exercise, social inclusion, a nation’s natural beauty shared by all. But beneath the sentimental branding is a simple legal transformation: your neighbor’s boundary stops being a boundary when the state decides your recreation matters more than his consent. That is not liberty. It is the political re-labeling of trespass.
I was very new to Austrian economics when I came to Mises University in 2009. Ron Paul had inspired me to read works like Economics in One Lesson and a few other beginner-level books. The ideas were intriguing, so I attended Mises University to get a deeper understanding.
Class conflict, as Marxists preach it, must be taught. Workers do not spontaneously see themselves as historical agents of class war. Would workers automatically rise up merely because monopolies exist? No.
In a genuine free market, coercive monopoly cannot exist. Monopoly, properly defined, is an exclusive privilege granted by the state. Without state protection, market dominance remains contestable.
After President Trump decided to join with the Israeli government to launch this new war on Iran, establishment Democrats have struggled to find an angle to attack the president’s decision.
They have struggled because, despite the false characterization pushed on Fox News, most centrist Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of both the Israeli government and the joint US/Israeli strategy of containing Iran to protect Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.
The February 2026 strike on Iran has raised serious questions about both the credibility and sustainability of US leadership in the region.
