Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama, 12-14 October 2023. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/SS23_PPT_10
US government officials from President Biden to Secretary Yellen think the US can fund endless wars, but the American people are suffering in reality. Original Article: No, We Cannot Afford to Fund Yet Another War
Trying to keep up with economic news is exhausting. Tune into the financial news channels or scroll through any number of economic blogs, and you’ll be hit with a fire hose of alarming headlines, scary-looking graphs, and a tone-deaf establishment emphatically declaring that the economy
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three great new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Globalization and Growing Global Equality, by Chelsea Follett, documents how—contrary to the conventional wisdom—the last few decades of globalization have seen unambiguous declines in global inequality across a variety of metrics, including income inequality,
Governments are fond of accusing private firms of “greed” when prices increase during periods of inflation. However, they fail to tell the public that government services also face price increases. Original Article: Is There Inflation in Government-Financed Goods and Services?
Jeffrey A. Singer As of 2022, all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Did someone recently flip a switch? It seems as though Wokeism, the Great Reset, ESG, DEI, and an assortment of other radical left-wing positions, have just taken over. It is in the movies, media, sports, finance, retail businesses, and even in the beer industry. Yet,
Walter Olson Over the years I’ve appeared as a guest 82 times on everyone’s favorite podcast, Caleb Brown’s Cato Daily Podcast, discussing all manner of issues. (You can browse those shows here.) Today, however, I wanted to give a nod to some of the other podcast hosts who’ve had
Rothbard warned against the assumption that because democracies are “better” than dictatorships, they are necessarily more peace loving. Original Article: Rothbard on a Priori History
What contributes to the wealth of a nation? Gross national income (GNI) and gross domestic product (GDP) are two well-known measures of a country’s economic growth. One measures the earnings of a country, and the other measures the value of the final goods produced by