Global Economy

The increased liberalization of world trade, writes Stefan Karlsson, has increased the scope of international division of labor and permanently helped raise growth in the world as a whole.

Joseph Potts asks how much longer the United States, in its dealings with Cuba, will continue its futile and ossified policy of frustrating the very sort of trade that made the US the wonder and envy of the world.

Since the turn to the 21st century, writes Antony Mueller, the factors that once supported dollar dominance have increasingly come under challenge. 

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino in Las Vegas on February 18, 2005

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on January 27, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

Lots of people are very confused about the prospect that oil reserves will dry up at some point in the future, writes Charles Featherstone.

The dollar has hit a new low in recent months on the international currency exchange. The blame is falling from most sectors of public opinion on our legislature, writes Katy Harwood Delay, with its debt spending at an all-time high.