Auto Loan Delinquencies Are Rising Fast

10/20/2026 Notes in the Margin

“Many parallels can be drawn between where [the] market stands right now and the factors leading to the housing crash nearly two decades ago.”

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The US Government’s Really Big Debt Problem

10/20/2026 Power & Market Ron Paul

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently warned about the danger from the United States government’s high debt level. She also criticized some...

California’s Wealth Tax Fails Hayek’s Rule-of-Law Test

10/20/2026 Mises Wire Daniel Sánchez-Piñol

The proposed California Wealth Tax is promoted as a tool for “social justice,” yet according to the standards set by F.A. Hayek, it undermines the rule of law, not to mention justice itself.

An Appeal for Peace and Multipolarity

10/20/2026 Power & Market Ryan McMaken

In this statement/open letter, Christopher Coyne and Daniel Klein—both professors of economics at George Mason University— have recently issued a statement on the need for America's foreign policy to move in the direction of peace and multipolarity.

From Diaspora Dream to Continental Disaster: The Pan-Africanism That Failed—And the One That Could Work

10/20/2026 Mises Wire Constantine Taurai

Pan-Africanism as envisioned by western intellectuals and activists and infused with socialism was never based in reality, so it was doomed to fail from the start. But there is a way to better unite African people—beginning with free markets.

Lessons From Political Violence in the 1876 Presidential Election

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While historians blame much of the post-Civil War racial violence on white southern Democrats, there also was Republican-led violence against blacks who voted for Democratic Party candidates.

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