September 2022

Last week the Edmund Burke Foundation played host to the third annual National Conservative Conference in Miami, Florida, bringing together several of the preeminent political and intellectual leaders in the contemporary Right. Organized by Yoram Hazony, this year’s natcon brought

When people start freezing to death in Europe this winter, who will be blamed? Regulations, Russia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? They all will be, but no one with a recognizable face or name will pay any price. The war fueled

[Originally published by Law&Liberty.] The celebrated Paul Volcker (1927-2019) became Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 43 years ago on August 6, 1979. The 20th-century Great Inflation, stoked by the Federal Reserve and the other central banks of the day, was

The academic and political buzzword today is "decolonialization," but what happens when good laws are discarded on the flimsy basis that they were established during a colonial era? Original Article: "When "Decolonialization" Creates More Problems than It Allegedly Solves" This Audio Mises

Taking advantage of their current majorities in Congress, which might not last beyond the midterms, and after eighteen months of marathon negotiations, the Democrats finally passed yet another plan to artificially and unfairly dope the US economy. The $430 billion

[This article is excerpted from The Mystery of Banking.] I. Money: Its Importance and Origins 1. The Importance of Money Today, money supply figures pervade the financial press. Every Friday, investors breathlessly watch for the latest money figures, and Wall Street often reacts

[This article is chapter 1 from Bylund’s new book How to Think about the Economy: A Primer.] Economics is an exciting field. The economics of old sought to uncover how the world works. It showed, or even proved, that there is a

Jordan Peterson has linked identity politics to socialism. Instead, socialism is about empowering the state. Original Article: "Socialism Is Not Groupthink, but Statethink: A Brief Comment on Jordan Peterson" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

On February 8, the Japanese yen fell to a 24-year low against the dollar, dropping to 143 yen per dollar. Not much has changed since then with the yen hovering between 142 and 144 per dollar. In September of 2021,

We define entrepreneurship in terms of people working creatively to make others’ lives better. That’s a very broad statement, of course, so it’s instructive to observe how individual entrepreneurs choose to make some customers’ lives better in some specific ways