The Canadian Fraser Institute’s “Economic Freedom of the World” report [PDF] was released last week, and, as The Week reports: “America is less economically free than Jordan, Mauritius, and the United Arab Emirates.” In fact, “the decline of economic freedom in the United States” is a topic specifically addressed by the authors, beca

I taught college-level political science for eight years, and it always amazed me how textbooks and instructional materials in the discipline almost completely ignored the existence of the Federal Reserve or central banks of any kind.

Chris Matthews (not the famous one from MSNBC) at Fortune today questions if “Catholics [can] love their faith and the free market.” In other words, it is presumed by the author (and many others) that there is a conflict between private property and Catholicism.

In this video, Ron Paul and Paul-Martin Foss discuss monetary policy and last week’s FOMC actions, or lack thereof. Topics include:

• The effect of monetary policy on prices in the economy.
• The likelihood of the Fed decreasing its balance sheet.
• The likelihood of increasing rates in the near future.
• How Fed actions distort the economy.
• How the credibility of the Fed is endangered by its apparent lack of a plan.

The Property and Freedom Society held its 10th Annual Meeting earlier this month in Bodrum, Turkey.

Dr. Hans-Herman Hoppe, a Mises Institute Senior Fellow and recipient of the 2015 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Democracy, De-Civilization, and Counterculture”

A Colorado Congresswoman has introduced legislation to exempt Colorado (and presumably other states with legalized recreational cannabis) from federal drug controls on cannabis.

No one is admitting to any hard numbers right now, but it looks like Pope Francis’s visit to the United States may be costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in security alone. That’s a conservative estimate.

Before Pope Francis speaks another word about global warming, he should familiarize himself with these two charts:

Americans have long been taught that government judges, including the supreme court, are limited in their interpretations by some sort of metaphysical power emanating from the so-called “rule of law,” or, as a Sandra Day O’Connor once sappily put it, “the majesty of the law.”

Mises Daily Monday: Michel Accad writes: 

The history of our medical system could reasonably be described as a “Misesian” tragedy.