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It has now become clear that in many ways the European Union is a cartel of high-tax governments.

With a state in existence, ultimately, all private property becomes state property.

Today is the birthday of Hans Hoppe, an outstanding social thinker and defender of liberty.

Free-trade deals — which are more about increasing government power than trade — are in retreat in the face of Brexit and Trump.

Ireland has tried to attract businesses by undercutting the tax rates of its neighbors. That is a good thing wherever it occurs.

Investors are not cooperating with the Bank of England's efforts to drive Brits to riskier investments.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached this morning. Is there any hope the country might turn to freedom and free markets?

Floridians could end up facing unnecessary hardship, because its state government does not understand basic economics.

The Fed has realized it is in need of damage control when it comes to its reputation among much of the American public.

In Brazil, street food is an important source of income for poor households. So why is the government always interfering in the street-food economy?

Like Mises, economist Robert Lucas understood that realities of human action make it impossible to treat economics as if it were a physical science.

Politicians and elites viscerally hate any form of tax competition — at least for the plebes.

Obamacare's latest failures show government-run health care does not serve the interests of those supposedly "benefiting" from it.

There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.

In 2016, candidates are ignoring the issue of social benefits and federal spending. Experience suggests opposing social spending is political suicide.

"Private" prisons are really just taxpayer-funded, monopolistic agents for the state. There is nothing free market about them.

Even in the face of a century of collectivist horrors, Republicans still can not win the essential "us vs. them" game.