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Through free trade, decentralization, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, the Swiss created a high level of prosperity based on innovation and creative capitalism.

The temporary surge in hurricane-related economic activity can in some ways help us understand the effects of the equally-temporary surge in activity related to an economic boom.

Taken all together, defense spending in Fiscal Year 2019 totals more than the state budget of Texas seven times over.

In spite of stringent gun-control measures, Brazil's homicide rates are among the worst in the world. Now there's a movement to let more Brazilians defend themselves with private gun ownership.

At the end of July 2018, the National Assembly estimated that each week six Venezuelan children die of starvation.

Many public school teachers are earning far more than they would if they were exposed to market demand.

The real motivations behind using both cubicles and the so-called open-office concept are something different than what we are told.

China’s stealth devaluation is not making the country more competitive, it is making household and corporate debt riskier as the purchasing power of the yuan is diminished.

Determining just how privileged you are, can be a confusing matter. After all, according to the current narrative, a white woman is privileged by her race and oppressed by her gender. And it gets even more complicated from there.

To commemorate Mises’s birthday, consider some of his valuable insights into property rights, freedom, civilization and government.