Mises Institute

Can government policy replicate a market economy and improve the outcomes? That is the subject of the book, Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy. Lipton Matthews takes a deep dive into these questions.

If this ballot initiative passes in November 2026, then California’s billionaire exodus will continue, followed by the multimillionaires.

Washington is pursuing industrial policy again, this time being an attempt to form a minerals consortium with other countries to secure minerals vital to US manufacturing. No doubt, this initiative will end up on the ash heap of bad policy.

Ryan McMaken looks at the latest jobs numbers form the federal government and why so many workers and families appear to think the economy is in trouble.

The US fiat monetary regime not only has given us inflation and boom-and-bust cycles, but it also is the main contributor to the out-of-control government spending and debt accumulation.

The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now more than ever.

Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored.

We know that Q-Day is coming upon us when AI moves to another level and humans must make the adjustments. State-sponsored solutions will fail, and the only way forward is the free market.

Last week's CPI report, and this week's PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices.

The Shiller CAPE ratio has only been higher once in 150 years. The Buffett indicator is 2.5 standard deviations above trend. 40% of the S&P 500 is in just ten stocks. Wall Street sees nothing wrong.

Those who use Catholic social teaching to defend socialism forget Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891, which strongly condemned socialism and defended private property.

What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.