As an addendum to last week’s article on the prominence of civilian-owned guns versus homicide rates, it may be interesting to look at the diversity in gun prominence across European countries. Contrary to the broad generalizations and over-simplifications spread by US gun-control advocates about European gun control, there is actually quite a
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property. — Ludwig von Mises. Civility is the word of the moment. New stories lament the breakdown of civility in American society, while reports of Antifa
[Editors Note: After days of rioting in the streets of Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron was forced to backtrack today on proposed gas taxes. While this episode demonstrated the unpopularity of trying to raise taxes in the name of fighting climate change, Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy recently noted at IER that this is only
After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining that due to a Russia/Ukraine dispute in the Sea of Azov he would no longer be willing to meet his Russian counterpart. According to Trump, the meeting had to be
The trade policies of both the USA and the EU seem to be based on the contradictory philosophy that unrestricted trade is beneficial within its borders, even if across internal borders, but not with parties outside those borders. But this makes no sense. From the point of view of trade, the voluntary exchange of goods, why are the borders between
Listen to Ryan McMaken’s commentary on the Radio Rothbard podcast . In order to whip up opposition to Brexit, pro-EU activists have long relied on generating fear by suggesting that without EU membership, British trade will suffer, and export totals will collapse. This, however, has always been an unconvincing argument because EU membership tends
Once again Donald Trump’s presidency has done a great job of highlighting the hypocrisy and delusion of the beltway bubble. A recent story from the Daily Beast reports that Trump is frustrating advisers with his apathy towards the current trillion dollar deficits coming out of Washington. Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s
Austrian economists should take an interest in the so-called “replication crisis” in science, which is affecting primarily the field of psychology, but is likely under-recognized in other social sciences—and in economics in particular. Over the last several, an increasing number of reports have highlighted the fact that scientists are frequently
Jeff Peshut answers the question that has been widely discussed in the media lately: Is There Really A Corporate Debt Bubble That’s Ready To Burst? To unravel the mystery, Peshut compares movements in the Rothbard-Salerno TMS monetary aggregate with movements in corporate business debt from 1978 through 2017. At the end of 2017 corporate
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