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Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David...
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Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow...
If economics has its Unicorn, it would be the Giffen Good, the good that would seem to defy the Law of Demand. While economists...
In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison’s famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle...
Two interviews, two timelines: before and after the Middle East war. Mark Thornton explains what the conflict means for oil, inflation, and why gold...
Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David...
Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute and Christopher Calton of the Independent Institute talk about why politicians want higher home prices. Even Trump now...
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property...
From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are...
While the political climate demands allegiance to one side or another, a more reasoned view can be found through libertarian principles, supported by the...
Bob applies Mises’ taxonomy of money and the regression theorem to Bitcoin, asking whether it should be classified as commodity or fiat money and...
Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property,...
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump’s rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.
The fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are allowed to circulate into key positions of government is proof enough that they are no...