Power & Market

For years I have held up Venezuela in my economics classes as an example of bad government policy.

What enables risky investment? What encourages excessive borrowing? What keeps interest rates low, even while there is a frenzy to borrow?

We do not need a central bank.

Hoppe at the 2024 conference of the Property and Freedom Society. 

When you take on the role of the world’s policeman, don’t be surprised when countries who cannot fight their own wars call “911.” That is exactly what is happening to the United States on two fronts.

In areas prone to hurricanes and flooding, homeowners are forced to purchase insurance to comply with local building codes, mortgage requirements, and zoning regulations.

Real capitalists don't base their business models on exploiting the taxpayers via lucrative government contracts. Real libertarians don't help their governments carry out pointless wars of conquest.

On July 28, 2000, even before the Bush-Gore election wrapped up, Lew Rockwell put his finger on what the Republicans had in store for America.

Is it possible that the Anglo-led hatred of Russia in the nineteenth century had the effect of turning Russia away from the West, making the Russian soil more fertile for anti-liberal ideas like Bolshevism?

As fast as a snake’s thrust, Israel has taken the methods of mass murder used against Gaza’s civilians to the West Bank, to Lebanon and Syria, to Yemen and beyond. It is now launching about for the next country to attack, Iran.