How to End the Fed
By Peter St. Onge How can we End the Fed… Without a government-licensed counterfeiter, would we be eating cat food? There’s an entire industry dedicated…
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Totalitarianism Begins With A Denial Of Economics
Authored by Michael Njuko via The Mises Institute In the history of the social sciences, no other field of study has attracted so great a…
Voluntary Systems vs. Authoritarian Control: Rethinking the Clash Between Socialism and Capitalism
By Neil “Liberty” Radimaker The ideological clash between socialism and capitalism is often presented as a binary choice, with proponents on both sides arguing that…
The Austrian School on the Origin and Importance of Sound Money
By Joshua D. Glawson The Austrian School of Economics offers a unique and insightful perspective on the origin of money and the concept of sound…
Only Economic Freedom Pulls People Out of Poverty
By Vincent Geloso The experience of poverty is debilitating and leaves deep scars. People who have experienced poverty are observed to have lasting health, educational,…
The Glue Binding Democracy and a Free Economy Has Melted
By Charles Hugh Smith And that’s how democracy and a free economy die. An astute reader asked me to clarify the difference between individual sacrifice…
The USDA’s War on Small Farms
By David Brady, Jr. Most students in America are introduced to the writings of Upton Sinclair. While they aren’t shown his incredible cover-up of the…
How Drug Makers Have Obliterated the Free Market
By Brian Garst Senator Bernie Sanders isn’t right about much, but he is about one thing: The United States pays too much for prescription drugs….
These Are The World’s Most Competitive Economies (US Falls To 9th!)
By Tyler Durden This year’s World Competitiveness Ranking, published by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) evaluates 64 economies based on more than 300 indicators across…
The Country Where Economic Freedom Has Grown the Most Over the Last Two Decades
By Dr. Rainer Zitelmann Vietnam continues to gain economic freedom, as confirmed by the latest edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom ranking….
Ireland’s Astonishing Economic Growth Holds an Important Lesson
By Lawrence W. Reed St. Patrick’s Day makes this week a perfect opportunity for an update on Ireland and the Irish. Recent developments in the…
Don’t Call It Capitalism: The Fed’s $8 Trillion Hoard of Financial Assets
By Ryan McMaken It’s a sure bet that as the economy worsens, unemployment surges, foreclosures rise, defaults climb, and economic misery ensues, we’ll be told…
Price Controls Will Likely Make A Comeback — Even Though They Don’t Work
By Tyler Durden As anybody who lived through the oil crisis of the 1970s (and the stagflation that resulted) will likely tell you, using price…
The Rise Of The New Socialism — And What You Can Do About It
By Thorsten Polleit I. THE STARTING CONDITIONS In this article I want to explain that a rapid departure from the free market system (or what…