Governments are pulling off a major profound theft. They have been violating international law robbing individual Russians with no connection to Ukraine on the pretense that this will somehow put...

Nobody really seems to understand where school choice comes from. On one hand, school choice opponents like the Center for American Progress are willing to butcher the history of the...

There are few television programs that reveal the marvels of modern innovative markets as well as the long-running PBS show, This Old House. Revealing the wonders of markets, of course,...

Reprinted from the Future of Freedom Foundation At a banquet dinner held in New York City on March 7, 1956, honoring the famous Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, another equally...

Harwood Economic Review Table of Contents Scapegoating Inflation Will Only Make It Worse Kat Dwyer Is This What Monetary Tightening Looks Like? James L. Caton What Did the Fed Know...

The May 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) release was worse than virtually any forecast predicted. The year-over-year CPI came in at 8.6 percent, not only higher than expected but notching...

Consumer prices are up almost nine percent from where they were a year ago. For the median U.S. household, that’s equivalent to an almost $6,000 pay cut. Politicians have blamed...

“Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” President Biden memorably scoffed on the campaign trail in April 2020. More’s the pity. With inflation raging, financial markets in turmoil, and production...

In the comedy movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Will Ferrell (“Lars”) and Rachel McAdams (“Sigrit”) star as Fire Saga, an objectively terrible but loveable music duo...

Reprinted from Alt-M Although I’ve devoted many essays here to exploding myths about historical private currencies, there’s one I’ve yet to directly challenge. That’s the belief that such currencies only...