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Total mortgage debt will increase as actual ownership in equity will go down. If homeownership does increase, it will be "ownership" of the sort where the homeowner has little to no actual equity.

As Americans celebrate the destructive wars that helped shape this country, we also remember that free markets promote peace and individual liberty.

A few hours studying the lessons of history can prevent heaps of grave-digging in the coming years. None of the veterans we celebrate on Veterans Day died protecting freedom in the US.

Based on their writings, what insights do Hayek and Mises provide about the recent election of Mamdani?

Rothbard: In contrast to older historians who regarded World War I as the destruction of progressive reform, I am convinced that the war came to the United States as the "fulfillment," the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life.

We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.

Contra the recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, free markets, private savings, and entrepreneurship not so-called innovation, is what drives a market economy.

Environmentalists are at it again, this time claiming that AI centers will create environmental disasters all over the country. Once again, they exaggerate greatly.

Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story.

Despite the claims from many historians that they just report the facts, the study of history is highly ideological and historians often depend upon narratives. Mises pointed out another way in his Theory and History.

How did Murray Rothbard view Ronald Reagan's legacy? A mood of blind "feel-good" Americanism, entrenched big government, and the evisceration of libertarian gains—leaving only one positive (repealing the 55 mph speed limit).