Insider Trading and Taxes: The State Wants to Read Your Mind
The state at all levels is unable to legislate against intent despite its best efforts.
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Homeownership at 51-Year Low: The Feds Have Failed
Federal policies have done nothing to increase homeownership over the past fifty years. Perhaps it is time to leave housing markets alone.
Waiting for Growth
Out of eight theories aiming to explain the current slow economic growth not one is correct highlighting the need for a reformation to sound policies.
A New, Easy-to-Read Explanation of Mises’s Human Action
Robert Murphy's Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action can serve as a companion to reading Mises's rather imposing Human Action.
Admitting a Weak Economy, the Fed Keeps Rates Low
The Fed likes to constantly tell us how well the economy is improving while refusing to increase the target rate. That tells us all we need to know.
What Pokémon Go Teaches Us About Capitalism
Pokémon Go contains many elements of capitalism, even those which its critics most revile.
America’s Police Crisis
Dr. Ed Stringham writes in the Wall Street Journal on why American's faith in government law-enforcement is at a 20-year low.
Johnson and Weld are Republicans Flying the Libertarian Banner
Dr. Mark Thornton was interviewed by The Daily Caller about the political positions off Libertarian Gary Johnson's 2016 presidential campaign.
The Week in Review: July 30, 2016
Mises University is wrapping up its 30th year here at the Mises Institute campus.
Decentralize the Military: Why We Need Independent Militias
A "well-regulated militia," controlled by the states, was once considered essential to providing a counterweight against federal power.
