Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to make France more free and more competitive. But his failed tax increase on gasoline shows just how fragile reform attempts are in France.
Venezuelans are defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties and economic livelihood.
As decades pass since the fall of the USSR, romanticism is replacing the bitter facts of the lives people in communist regimes were forced to live
Oil prices did not cause the Venezuelan crisis. Nor can oil now be its cure.
Sadly, the practice of branding political opponents as “insane” is not confined to the now-defunct Soviet state.
Capitalism — not democracy — is what gives us the blessings we have come to associate with a free society. So it is markets and not democracy that we must defend.
France did not adopt collectivism overnight. Rather, it has seen key periods that have made France fertile soil for a certain brand of aggressive socialism.
Dr. Daniel Lahoud has single-handedly introduced hundreds of Venezuelan students to the ideas of Mises and Hayek.
