Mises Institute

So uttered the famous phrase from William H. Vanderbilt, which was interpreted to mean that the capitalists didn’t care for their customers. Vanderbilt knew he worked for his stockholders, but in working for them, he had to provide for his railroad’s passengers.

We should stop using terms such as “trade surplus” or “trade deficit.” Trade is always a surplus and the only deficit comes from government interventions.

While progressives love to claim fealty to the First Amendment, they actually have used the Fourteenth Amendment to squash free speech and free expression.

After central bank expansionary efforts have unleashed inflation, officials then seek to contract the money supply in an attempt to undo the inflationary damage. No contractionary policy, however, can fix the problems caused by monetary manipulation.

Many fans of Austrian economics know the MP Materials and US Rare Earth REM financing agreements will end badly with crony capitalism sourced from nonsense.

Jamaica’s constitutional reform will achieve nothing if it continues to indulge the politics of resentment rather than building the framework for liberty.

Free speech is not an ideological issue. As Murray Rothbard noted, it really is an issue tied to private property rights.

The present US regime is far more tyrannical than the British government that supposedly was so intolerable that independence was the only way out. Perhaps it is time for another Declaration of Independence.