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The happiness metric is a new form of social engineering, and that as such, happiness economics is biased toward a particular political utopia and scientific ideal. 

U.S. officials and statists in the private sector incessantly sing the praises of democracy.

Those who called Hamas’s attack on Israel “Israel’s 9/11” were more accurate than they realized.

British popular Liberalism was insufficiently committed to classical-liberal principles and this waywardness explains why it became increasingly interventionist as of the mid-nineteenth century.

Many in Argentina, including leading free-market candidate Javier Milei, have concluded that the Peso is a currency on it's death bed. But there is a lot of debate over who best to euthanize the peso while minimizing further damage. 

Bank stocks are still floundering after they took a major hit in March of this year, coinciding with the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, First Rep

Last week we witnessed a dramatic, historical first: A Speaker of the US House of Representatives was removed from that position by a vote from Mem

Just as everything seemed bright for a new anti-interventionist movement spearheaded by a disgruntled political Right came chaos in Israel.

Noted Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises passed away on October 10, 1973, 50 years ago today.