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Like the Greenspan Fed before it, the Yellen Fed has doubled down on easy money, but will trigger a crisis once it tries to inch toward more normal interest rates.

"... this time a hundred years ago was the eve of the beginning of the great slaughters of the twentieth century..."

As homicide rates have declined in the US the past 20 years, and gun-related homicides with them, gun-control advocates have attempted to create a new category of "gun violence" by blaming suicides on access to guns.

In his book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, Philip Mirowski correctly diagnoses many problems with neoclassical economics. The reader soon notices, however, that Mirowski doesn't know the difference between Austrian economists and neoliberals.

The Obama Administration is planning new gun restrictions to be implemented by executive order.

Senator Rand Paul published an op-ed on Business Insider this past Sunday attacking the easy money policy of the Bernanke-Yellen Federal Reserve and continuing his call for a full audit of the central bank.

When you own 28 percent of all the land — 640 million acres — in the United States, you're likely to end up with some neighbors who don't care for how you do business.

Happy New Year from everyone at the Mises Institute! After an exciting 2015 filled with important research and growth in our global reach, we look forward to 2016. We start the new year with a Mises Weekends from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.

With a new funding package in place, the Jeddah Tower — on track to be to be the world’s next tallest skyscraper — is moving forward. Will it prove to be like the Burj Khalifa tower and signal the next bust?