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Argentina President Javier Milei is proposing a new law that would “declare it an imprescriptible crime for the state and the central bank to...
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Argentina President Javier Milei is proposing a new law that would “declare it an imprescriptible crime for the state and the central bank to...
On New Year’s Eve 1974, President Gerald Ford snuck in an executive order legalizing private gold ownership, revoking FDR’s previous policies banning gold “hoarding.”
Mark Thornton looks forward to 2025—and a little bit backwards at 2024—and projects what we might see in the coming new year.
While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, revisionist historians see...
In ancient Athens, “the individual was much more subservient to the supremacy of the social body … than he is in any of the...
One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more...
In August, the money supply grew at the fastest rate in 23 months.
Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France’s minister of finance more than...
Thanks to increasingly broad car-seat laws, a third child often requires the purchase of a larger, more expensive vehicle. At the margins, this has...
Regulators with the European Union want people to believe that the “dead hand” of government regulation actually enhances competition. The only thing their actions...
When people speak of “old school economics,” they generally mean the application of economic thinking that involves what we might call “common sense.” That...
While F.A. Hayek contributed much to the Austrian School of Economics, he also supported the establishment of the welfare state, believing that it was...
In this review of Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has raged for the past quarter century...
Republicans today are decrying the “lawfare” that Democrats are using against them, and rightly so. However, had Republicans not vastly expanded federal criminal law...