The quest for sound money is hardly a recent phenomenon. In 13th century Italy, two different gold monetary units competed ...

Equal protection laws supposedly protect individual rights by guaranteeing the law protects everyone equally. However, Murray ...

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Miran wants to fire up the Fed money printers. He absurdly believes Fed policy is "well into restrictive territory." ...

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Hayek once remarked, “If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.” Building on this, if socialists ...

Meanwhile, democracy often lacks such a simple causal chain. In the United States, the president is often blamed, sometimes ...

A common objection to Anarcho-Capitalism is that only the state can offer workable defense services to people through police ...

Lower interest rates can help promote economic growth—as long as those rates are determined by the market and not by ...

The Scandinavian model is often misrepresented as a humane and efficient form of socialism. In reality, it is a distinctly ...

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