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Las Vegas: An Austrian View of Land Prices

Blog06/05/2017Doug French

Is buying land a good idea? It's a lot more complicated than simply declaring "buy land, they aren't making it anymore."

Litigation and Regulation

Blog05/19/2017Christopher P. Casey

True regulatory reform requires the recognition, extension, and proper adjudication of property rights.

Libertarianism at the Brink

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog05/16/2017David Gordon

Cato's Brink Lindsey says we can't evaluate complete laissez-faire because it does not exist; but he somehow "knows" government intervention is better.

Listen to Dead Economists

EducationHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

Blog05/10/2017Jeff Deist

We need dead economists to save us from ourselves, and from the hubris of "New Economics."

Luddy: The Fed's Risky Uncharted Course

The Fed

Blog04/17/2017Robert L. Luddy

The Fed has strayed from its initial charter and is now the primary enabler of federal deficit spending and debt, which is now almost $20 trillion.

L.A. to Worsen Housing Shortage with New Rent Controls

The EntrepreneurPolitical TheoryValue and Exchange

Blog03/29/2017Ryan McMaken

Housing activists in Los Angeles hope to expand rent control there. This will make the city's housing crisis even worse.

Ludwig von Mises and Trash TV

Media and Culture

Blog03/27/2017Tho Bishop

Capitalism cannot give consumers taste, but it does give them choice.

Lew Rockwell on War and Our Upcoming Foreign-Policy Symposium

War and Foreign PolicyMoney and Banking

Blog03/01/2017Ryan McMaken

In this video, Lew Rockwell discusses our upcoming conference, and the role of the Fed in financing ongoing wars.

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Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It

Ryan McMaken

The power to incinerate a billion or more human beings over morning coffee remains in the power of the president. This morning Biden supporters on Twitter were ecstatic over the video of the nuclear launch equipment being handed over to Biden.

The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence

Ron Paul

It’s hard to be optimistic about a Biden administration with so many hyperinterventionist Obama retreads. Get ready for new wars and "regime change" operations.

Unintended Consequences: Some Problems with National Income Accounting

David Howden

It's not that we need to rid ourselves of the baggage of macrostatistics completely. Rather, we need to 1) critically assess whether they are appropriate, if so, 2) for what role, and finally 3) whether they are consistent as a tool we can use to tell the story we want.

Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy

Ryan McMaken

Expect opponents of secession and decentralization to start claiming that neither option is acceptable because any big change to the status quo could endanger American "strength" in foreign policy. Don't listen to them.

What Biden/Harris Will Do

Jeff Deist

Will Biden/Harris be a transformative administration?

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William L. Anderson is a professor of economics at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland.