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The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee Today announced that it will keep its target policy interest rate at 3.75 percent. The FOMC has held to this

The president has declared that he loves inflation. What economic fallacies is he likely adopting that leads to this conclusion?

Because government monetary authorities have been interfering with interest rates for decades, investors have no more confidence in the bond markets, as they expect more interference and more unpredictability.

Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire has triggered a familiar round of progressive outrage. But the imprecise focus on wealth distribution obscures the real issue: how much of modern wealth is acquired through politics rather than production.

Sure, the earnings average was up year over year, but prices increased more than earnings did. In fact, price inflation hit a 38-month high in May.

Congress accidentally protected the American people’s liberty this week when it failed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

For many ordinary workers—many of which are stuck with part-time work and falling real wages—it's hard to see how this is a "blowout" jobs report.

Hooking people on bogus labels and antidepressants has already ruined too many American lives. Passing out millions more psychiatric Purple Hearts will not make this nation happier or more sane.

Murray Rothbard called his political philosophy anarcho-capitalism to differentiate it from the far more common “communist anarchism.” Or, rather, it was more

Recently, I noticed that Lew’s 2014 book Against the State was not available among our many free books at mises.org. The book has always been available as a

According to AOC and Bernie Sanders, it is impossible for someone to obtain a billion dollars of income by any means beyond theft. How much of a mega-income is due to entrepreneurial profit and how much is a wealth transfer?

Economists like Harold Demsetz and Ronald Coase based their property rights views on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard based his on justice.