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The island nation of Jamaica has beautiful beaches but a problem with poverty. Jamaica needs capital and free markets, not more state control of the economy.

While Western attention is on the Israel-Hamas conflict, war quietly rages in Yemen with predictable destruction. Not surprisingly, US interventionism is fueling this fight.

When an economy suffers a recession, some factors of production, such as labor, become unemployed. Keynesians believe that expanding credit and fiat money will bring back full employment. That's not how an economy works.

American political and economic elites insist that they should have authority over everyone else. As people rebel, the elites are only doubling down on their original demands.

While economics textbooks are weak on causes of the Great Depression, American history texts are even worse. It's time for some truth telling.

While the Secret Service is best known as the guys in sunglasses protecting the president of the United States, the SS actually was created to enforce the fiat money regime during the Lincoln administration.

Despite higher rents, investment in new apartments is a losing proposition, thanks to the Federal Reserve.

The movie Wonka is unwittingly a lesson in the dangers of crony capitalism. Willy Wonka, however, beats the odds by being a Misesian entrepreneur.

Higher education promotes itself as the leader in equitable outcomes, but the reality is quite different, especially when it comes to women.

When Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking Principles in 1871, he challenged several schools of thought—and won. His intellectual revolution continues today.