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Peter G. Klein

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter is making the rounds with a speech about ISIL being a "cancer" that must be cured with aggressive treatment.

T. Hunt Tooley

Not a Snow Job; or, Spontaneous Order in Winter.

C.Jay Engel

We're being told to blame the current market volatility and emerging crisis on oil prices, China, and a "strong dollar." To find the real causes, though, we must look at central banks and at past mistakes and malinvestments.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

In our efforts to soak the present rich we have been soaking the future poor.

Joseph T. Salerno
Norway's largest bank, DNB, has joined the relentless campaign by governments and big banks the world over to abolish cash, the physical embodiment of a nation's monetary unit and the last tangible, if tenuous, link to the 19th-century gold standard.
Mises Institute

Fear is in the air. Central bankers are warning of crisis, and while mainstream economists fear the falling prices that are on the horizon in our post-boom world, Austrians know that deflation and recessions are both inevitable and necessary.

Ryan McMaken
The reaction to the failure of the Schengen Area offers one example of the centralist impulse within the EU, but for another illustration of of how the EU works, we need look no further than the EU's reaction to Poland's recent elections.
Dan Sanchez

Ludwig von Mises reminds us that thanks to the rise of markets and capitalism, human beings gained more access to more abundance than ever before. And it is the consumers, not the producers, who have power over the market process.

Troy Vincent

Although many analysts are and have been calling for a bottom in oil prices, there are three key reasons why oil can continue to fall substantially further from current levels near $30 per barrel.