According to the most recent data, the birth rate in the United States hit a new low in 2024. Many pundits and economists across the political spectrum have framed this as a big problem, not least of all because regime supporters want more young taxpayers to prop up social-benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. 

Among both leftists and conservatives, it has become popular to insist that a few tweaks to economic policy will reverse the downward trend in fertility. 

[This article is Per Bylund’s opening speech he gave for Sociedad de la Libertad’s VIII Cumbre Mundial de la Libertad (the Seventh World Summit of Freedom) on November 9, 2025.]

Is a little wet, still wet? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. But, for many, the correct answer—for which they argue vociferously—is that “a little wet is not wet.”

Rothbard’s biographer, and a great friend to peace and freedom. I still miss reading Justin’s weekly column at antiwar.com. 

In a world full of scams and rackets, the Trump administration has floated the idea of 50-year mortgages, which Wolf Richter wrote would be, “...the ripoff of the century.”

The doctrines of socialism have been with us for more than 150 years, but no one had really tried it in a total way until the advent of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the early 1990s. During that period, a number of communist/socialist revolutions occurred in Asia, Cuba, and Africa, all of which provided a laboratory to observe how these socialist economies would perform.

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is a term that describes short-term financing of items, typically with no interest (at least if you make your payments on time). In today’s culture, there is a huge rise in consumer debt, as people are given the ability to buy things they cannot afford.