Politicians and central bankers assure us that they are diligently “fighting” inflation. Actually, they are fighting inflation the same way that an arsonist fights against the fires he just set.…

Fiat money and state coercion have prevented us from seeing the threat to our well-being that would be apparent with sound money and true liberty.

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Mike Fox Two hundred and fifty years ago, the boom of muskets at Lexington and Concord ignited a revolution. The “shot heard round the world” led to the founding law…

Alex Nowrasteh The Trump administration is rapidly spending its political capital and attacking the courts by deporting noncriminals to El Salvador. In its zeal to speed deportations and close the…

George Selgin The newly published book by Cato Senior Fellow George Selgin, False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947, is a definitive history of the United…

The ruling classes and their media blamed the 2008 financial crisis on free markets and too little government regulation. However, because the Federal Reserve promised to help cover losses in…

Neal McCluskey On April 22, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The case pits parents in Montgomery County, MD, who wanted to opt their children…

Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo The Trump administration’s trade policy has taken a serious beating during the past few weeks, with good reason. Okay, for many good reasons, some of…

While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a different story. Things came to a head April…