Scotland still hasn’t given up on holding another independence referendum within the next several years. Although London opposes the measure, it is notable that the …
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With Reverse Repos, The Fed Is Now Trying to Clean up Its Own Mess
This spring Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes asked Fed chair Jerome Powell, “And you believe the system, because of the oversight of the Fed, has …
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Why "Wild Swings" In Crypto Prices are Not Really a Problem
Price “stability” has never been a feature of a free marketplace. Stability is an obsession of central banks, and the day may come when central …
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Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left
These days it’s not your typical latte-sipping millennials who are going woke. Taking a stroll around America’s largest metro areas will have one believe social …
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The Ethics of Liberty with Ryan McMaken
Mises.org editor Ryan McMaken joins the show to tackle some of the toughest and most controversial chapters of Rothbard’s groundbreaking treatise The Ethics of Liberty. …
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FRC's Top 7 Trending Items (Week of June 6)
Here are “The 7” top trending items at FRC over the past seven days: 1. Update: RNC Pride Tweet: The Elephant in the Room A …
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Bitcoin's El Salvador Option
Saturday last, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, shook the bitcoin world when he announced he would make bitcoin legal tender in his country. …
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Scott Sumner on Why the Bernanke Fed Was Too Tight
Scott Sumner is a monetary economist with the Mercatus Center. He famously argued in late 2008 that the Fed was too tight with monetary policy, …
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Is the Subjectivist Theory of Value Ideological?
According to Marxists, the subjective theory of value is just bourgeois apologetics. By using the subjective theory, economists conceal the fact that the proletariat under …
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Sowing Pro-Life Seeds Among the States
On May 17, the Supreme Court announced that it would take up the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and review Mississippi HB 1510, …
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Texas Says It Can Enforce Immigration Restrictions. Texas Is Right
Texas Governor Greg Abbot yesterday announced that the State will build its own borders wall, and will jail anyone “who enters our state illegally and …
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Much Ado about Nothing in the Art Market
Nothing will come of nothing. Shakespeare, King Lear If, as we are often told, the aim of art is to shock the bourgeoisie, then the …
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Democracy According to The Office
It’s been said by democracy’s critics that the system is essentially two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. But to its defenders, democracy …
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Why the US Supports Secession for Africans, but Not for Americans
The twentieth century was a century of secession. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of independent states in the world has …
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Jeff Deist on Black Rock and the Repo Crisis
Jeff Deist and David Gornoski talk about some of the recent news and relevant topics such as the buying up of homes by Black Rock; …
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With Capitalism, Cooperation Is Just as Important as Competition
It has often been asserted that we should cooperate rather than compete in society. For instance, FDR said, “Competition has been shown to be useful …
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Government Schools Use Covid as an Excuse to Tighten Totalitarian Grip
While the recent clamp-down on power from public universities has mainly been in the realm of speech and expression, like almost every other government institution, …
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Gao Zhisheng: Fighting for Human Rights, Against All Odds
China’s flagrant disregard for human rights is exemplified by the story of Gao Zhisheng, a Christian lawyer who is recognized as one of the finest …
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Why Keynes Was Wrong about Unemployment
Large-scale unemployment is another name for a surplus in the labor market. Equilibrium is a state which markets will naturally move toward as buyers and …
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From Pandemic to Endemic: Living with COVID-19
Our guest is Professor David Heymann, an American physician and epidemiologist based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has held leading …
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