Chris Edwards President Trump’s anti-market impulses are taking center stage this week with his damaging tariff policies. But the president is occasionally supportive of pro-market reforms, such as his remarks on possibly privatizing the US Postal Service (USPS). A Trump reform push would be welcome because
In The General Theory, J.M. Keynes allegedly “discredited” Say‘s Law. Of course, Keynes actually debunked a straw man that was a caricature of what Say actually wrote. It‘s time to set the record straight.
In May 2025, the Mises Institute will hold its next Mises Book Club, a program that promotes deep reading in Austrian economics.
Adam N. Michel After five rounds of voting, the pass-through tax deduction was chosen as the worst tax expenditure. The 20 percent business deduction arbitrarily favors certain types of businesses over others and adds tremendous complexity to the tax code. The results from the Tax
If devaluing the currency was a real measure of competitiveness, Argentina and Venezuela would be the most competitive nations on the planet.
President Trump‘s recent assertions that the Fed should lower the discount rate puts him squarely in the middle of Fed politics and exposes the messy truth that the Fed is not an independent group of experts but rather a tool of the political system.
Central bank digital currencies are surveillance disguised as money.
Part of bringing up young children is to tell them stories and accounts about people who did the right thing, and how they made life better for themselves and others. We can do the same with describing economic concepts, which don‘t have to be dry