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Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.
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Ryan McMaken, editor-in-chief for Mises.org, joins John Stossel to grade Donald Trump’s first year in office prior to tonight’s State of the Union.
Governments at all levels abuse their “privilege” of eminent domain, the taking of private property for government use. Murray Rothbard understood that government was...
Debt, tariffs, and money printing: Mark Thornton explains how the policy machine rewires markets, and why metals and commodities react first.
Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.
While Brazil calls itself a constitutional democracy that has a market economy, private property and markets themselves are subject to conditions set by the...
Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals.
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property...
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...