Economic Policy

While TV commentators are wagging their fingers at the fossil fuel industry, Taylor Sheridan has provided a different point of view with “Landman.”

"Hurry up and wait" is often the reality of medical care. We shouldn't be surprised to know that long lines and government intervention go together.

Trump promises to levy new tariffs and trade restrictions, along with subsidies for favored industries. This latest version of “industrial policy” will fail again, it has in the past. 

In Los Angeles, if you want your home or business protected from fires, you must hire concierge firefighters.

Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, but the free city of Próspera, located just of the Honduras coast, is anything but poor. Here, private property and free markets are the norm and Bitcoin is legal tender. Of course, the socialists want it shut down.

Washington has wielded the sanctions weapon against nearly a third of all nations on earth. It is time to rethink these policies, and one hopes the incoming Trump administration will do just that and change course.

President-elect Trump has promised changes in economic policies. How well they work and how they will affect us remains to be seen. Here is a look at proposals that have promise—and proposals that are likely to cause harm.

Mark Thornton explores the continuing negative impacts of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba and how getting rid of this Cold War policy could benefit the peoples of Cuba, the US, and others. Viva Cuba Libre!

As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, we await the damage that surely will happen should he go through with his threats to levy historically-high tariffs against everyone else. One hopes good economic sense prevails.

The Mises Institute is giving away copies of Murray Rothbard's classic, What Has Government Done to Our Money? and it will change how one sees our nation's monetary history. Rothbard presents a clear case for sound money as a basis for civilization itself.