The recently completed royal tour of the Caribbean has provoked debates about Britain’s participation in the transatlantic slave trade. Animated by propaganda, such discussions obscure the complexity of the slave trade. Political hustlers are characterizing the slave trade in racial

Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Presented at the 2022 Libertarian Scholars Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee on September 10, 2022. 

Even as population has grown, increasing the intensive margin for agriculture has led to increased food production. This may not necessarily be a good thing. Original Article: "The False Benefit of Less Land Use for Agriculture" This Audio Mises Wire is generously

Jay “The Inflation We Caused Is Transitory” Powell finally did it. On Friday, the Fed chair finally mustered the courage to say that he is going to do the job he has been hired to do: the Fed will not “pivot”

Both Murray Rothbard and Harry Jaffa began as men of the Right. However, Rothbard turned toward the view that individuals possess rights outside of the state; Jaffa turned toward conservatism. Original Article: "Promoting Natural Rights Instead of Conservatism: Looking at Rothbard and Jaffa" This

Paul Krugman recently argued that the Federal Reserve can engineer a "soft landing" for the economy as it tries to deal with inflation. Such a view ignores economic realities. Original Article: "Looking at the Economic Myth of the "Soft Landing"" This Audio

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I think it important to delineate briefly what relativism is and what the issues are on this important topic. Let us first consider the polar opposite of relativism: absolutism. The absolutist believes that man's mind, employing reason (which according to

The Federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics released new price inflation data today, and the news wasn't good. According to the BLS, CPI inflation rose 8.3 percent, year over year, during August, before seasonal adjustment. That's the seventeenth month in

When in March the Federal Reserve finally moved to belatedly embark on a series of rate hikes to slow the hottest inflation in the United States since the 1980s, it signaled impending trouble for many emerging market economies. Often unable to