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Argentina’s Recent Inflation Trends Are Proving Hazlitt Right
Milei has drastically cut public spending in Argentina since being elected. The result, as Hazlitt predicted, is that inflation is getting more under control.
Daphne Posadas | July 9, 2024
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Why Britain’s Proposed Smoking Ban Is Immoral
The British Government has become increasingly authoritarian about how individuals choose to live their lives.
Jess Gill | April 30, 2024
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More and More Chinese Citizens Lose Trust in CCP Leadership
The Party’s Far-Reaching Control Stifles Many Natural Rights
John Tuttle | April 16, 2024
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The Vietnamese People Admire Capitalist Economic Systems
Although still nominally a “socialist” country, Vietnam has been moving steadily in the free-market direction, and the Vietnamese have positive feelings overall toward capitalist countries.
Rainer Zitelmann | April 9, 2024
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China’s Economic Facade is Cracking
Once the nation was all but expected to eclipse the United States economically, now that trajectory seems unlikely.
Samuel Gregg | March 26, 2024
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‘Laissez-Faire’ Sweden Had the Lowest COVID Mortality in Europe
Many more people in Sweden are alive today because Anders Tegnell understands the economic lesson of secondary consequences better than many economists.
Jon Miltimore | March 12, 2024
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Why the Meiji Restoration Was Pivotal for Japan
Meiji Japan was not a liberal paradise. But the country in 1900 was notably freer, more industrialized and prosperous, and substantially more modern than it had been just three decades earlier.
Lawrence W. Reed | March 5, 2024
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Myanmar’s Draft Shows How Not to Run a Military
Conscription is forced labor, and a particularly egregious type of forced labor at that. It has no place in a free society.
Cruz Marquis | March 5, 2024
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Javier Milei Delivers Argentina’s First Surplus in Over a Decade
The revelation that Argentina has done something the US government hasn’t done in more than two decades—run a budget surplus—seems like a newsworthy event. So why the silence?
Jon Miltimore | February 27, 2024