by Richard M. Ebeling | Jul 16, 2025 | Money & Banking
The monetary central planners can never be more successful in determining a “optimal” quantity of money or the “right” interest rates to assure savings-investment coordination than all other socialist planners were when they tried to centrally plan agricultural production or investment output for an entire society.
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 16, 2025 | Regulation
This year, and mostly because the Trump administration decided to challenge the entire model, the machinery has begun to malfunction and melt away. There is a very long way to go, but we finally have the answer to the question of this fourth branch’s legitimacy.
by Alan Dershowitz | Jul 16, 2025 | Middle East & Israel
Why the claim equals Holocaust denial.
by Andrew Bernstein | Jul 14, 2025 | History, Progress
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
by Walter Olson | Jul 13, 2025 | Free Speech
The Supreme Court will uphold as well-established the First Amendment right to engage in ideological ad boycotts. The question is whether the Trump administration will succeed in bulldozing this as a practical matter before it reaches the high court.
by George Reisman | Jul 12, 2025 | Free Trade, Protectionism & Tariffs
Globalization is the process of bringing the entire world into the system of division of labor and thus into the system of social cooperation, of which division of labor is the essence. Its completion will mark the highest level of division of labor and social cooperation that it is possible for human beings to achieve, given the size of the world’s population.
by Mackenzie France | Jul 11, 2025 | POLITICS
“Why can’t you think about it that Mark Zuckerberg is really smart” and that he saw the value where others didn’t?
by Walter Block | Jul 9, 2025 | Taxation
If Mr. Trump completely eliminates the IRS and the hated income tax along with it, there may be a reasonable case for increasing tariff rates.
by Daniel J Mitchell | Jul 7, 2025 | Antitrust & Monopolies
Is the DOJ finally done playing games with the economy?