Though it’s rare to hear someone praise the military-industrial-congressional complex, it is only the latter component that masks a praiseworthy feat. Markets—also known as “people” voluntarily exchanging—have devised the most efficient methods for producing weapons...
Economics
Want More Families? End Inflation
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 26, 2025 | Book Reviews, Economics, Featured Articles
In the recently published Inflation and the Family, Jason Degner delivers a compelling, accessible, and deeply necessary work—one that lays bare the real, grinding consequences of inflationary policies on everyday American families. For those concerned with economic...

Government-Funded Research: Bad for American Health, Wealth, and Freedom
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 16, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
A lifelong family friend brought up the subject of government-funded science at a family cookout recently, and was surprised to hear my opposition to it. “Well, I don’t think we should be taxing people to study the sex life of quails on cocaine,” I responded...

Default Now!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 12, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
As of April 2025, the U.S. national debt stands at a staggering $36.2 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that net interest payments on this debt alone will reach $952 billion in fiscal year 2025—nearly a trillion dollars just to service past...

India’s Education System Needs Market Freedom
by Shashank Shukla | Jun 9, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
India’s private education sector remains caught in a legal paradox. While the Constitution permits every citizen the right to practice any profession or carry on any trade or business under Article 19(1)(g), profit-making in education remains legally restricted. This...
TGIF: On “Public Property”
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 6, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
A dubious theory held by some libertarians has been knocking about. It goes something like this: The claim that government-controlled land is actually unowned—and thus not properly subject to government rulemaking—would lead to consequences that reasonable people...
Labour Learns a Trade
by Owen Ashworth | Jun 2, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
Recently, the United Kingdom signed two “free trade deals” with India and the United States. Adam Smith and David Ricardo would justifiably take issue with the label of free trade because these deals have not established what the term refers to in the classical...
Trump Calls Big Government ‘Beautiful’
by Thomas Eddlem | May 26, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
“I’m a fiscal hawk,” Trump announced to the press on May 21, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson in tow, with typical Trumpian humbuggery. “I’m a bigger fiscal hawk. There’s nobody like me as a fiscal hawk.” Of course, only the last part of that statement was true. Truly,...