Joseph Bishop-Henchman President Donald Trump joins Presidents John Quincy Adams (1828), John Tyler (1842), Benjamin Harrison (1890), and Herbert Hoover (1930) in enacting a tariff designed not just to raise…

Calhoun emphasized the principle that the states were sovereign and independent and not merely the creation of the federal government.

Modern politics does not produce people of character and certainly there are few, if any, statesmen left on the scene. John C. Calhoun was an exception and his principled stands…

Jeffrey A. Singer Below is an excerpt of the new book Your Body, Your Health Care (Cato Institute 2025) by Jeffrey A. Singer, MD, a senior fellow in Health Policy…

Michael Chapman Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) (Image: LefontQ on Wikimedia Commons.) To understand the folly of protectionism, including the use of tariffs, there is perhaps no greater teacher than Frederic Bastiat…

If devaluing the currency was a real measure of competitiveness, Argentina and Venezuela would be the most competitive nations on the planet.

Mises Institute President Thomas DiLorenzo joins NTD News to talk tariffs and trade policy.

Alan Reynolds (Photo: his​to​ry​on​thenet​.com) Benjamin M. Anderson was a legendary Austrian economist at Chase National Bank from 1929 to 1939, then a UCLA economist until his death in 1949, the…

Jeffrey A. Singer Today, the Cato Institute is releasing my new book, Your Body, Your Health Care—a defense of your right to make your own health care decisions without government…

Frederic Bastiat is an often unsung hero of 19th Century economic thought. His lessons on freedom and trade are timeless and what he wrote nearly two centuries ago is still…