Price Controls Make Life Miserable for New Yorkers
After many decades of rent control and other regulations, New York politicians still can't seem to figure out why housing is so expensive.
U.S. History
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America’s Libertarian Revolution
In the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution on behalf of libertarianism and against power.
Homelessness and the Problem of Public Space
Government policy encourages homeless people to congregate in public areas twice over: first, cities destroy access to very-low-cost housing. Second, city governments often refuse to enforce their own rules of public-space use. Tent cities result.
Review: Capitalism in America: A History
Joakim Book reviews Greenspan and Wooldridge's 'Capitalism in America.' What could go wrong with a book from a former Fed chairman? Quite a lot!
Elizabeth Warren’s Antitrust Crusade is an Economic and Civil Liberties Nightmare
There is almost no economic problem, real or imagined, that cannot be made worse by inappropriate government regulation. Antitrust is no exception.
The Supreme Court’s Dubious “Wall of Separation” between Church and State
How old should a monument be to avoid Establishment Clause challenges? Not that old, given the Supreme Court invented the "wall of separation" argument in only 1947.
Beginning the Welfare State: Civil War Veterans’ Pensions
What would Murray Rothbard have said in the planned chapter 10 of his nine-chapter manuscript on the Progressive Era? Patrick Newman reveals Rothbard's target: the fourth party system (1896–1932).
Why Are Progressives so Bad at Governing?
From crumbling public transport to rampant homelessness, progressive politicians are terrible at running the government once they are in power.
Taking Government Out of Politics: Murray Rothbard on Political and Local Reform during the Progressive Era
What would Murray Rothbard have said in the planned chapter 10 of his nine-chapter manuscript on the Progressive Era? Patrick Newman reveals Rothbard's target: the fourth party system (1896–1932).
Money and Gold in the 1920s and 1930s: An Austrian View
The Fed’s monetary policy, except for very brief periods in 1929 and 1936–1937, was consistently and unremittingly inflationist in the 1920s and 1930s.
