March 24, 2022
Pan-African Payment System Is Projected to Boost Intra-African Trade. How Effective Could It Be?
by Abdullah Tijani Abdullah Tijani is a National Coordinator at Students For Liberty in Nigeria. He's an alumnus of African Liberty and Free Market Revolution Fellowship. He's a writer and advocate for a free and prosperous society. African Leaders under…
December 23, 2021
THE NATURE OF ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION BY POLITICIANS IN UGANDA
Can the state make evil moral by making evil legal? This article is about that reality in Uganda—one of a thousand reflections on the trajectories of governance and economic exploitation of Ugandans by the State. I mean to challenge the…
May 6, 2020
Central Planning: Hawaii Style
By Ken Schoolland Hawaii’s economy needs freedom, not a ‘navigator’ The all-caps headline for the May 1 print edition of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser screamed, “BACK TO WORK, FOR SOME.” To repeat: for some — but not others. And that’s the…
April 28, 2020
Generations of Keynesian Policies Have Made Us Extremely Vulnerable to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis
By Mark Hornshaw It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of…
April 5, 2020
What If We’re Headed for a Global Depression?
By Lobo Tigre My friend Doug Casey has long predicted what he says will become known as The Greater Depression. In 2008 when I worked for him, we thought it had arrived. We didn’t think such a fatally wounded economy…
December 12, 2019
Country Risk Assessment for Resource Investors: Mexico
By Lobo Tigre The drug war is heating up in Mexico. Narco gun battles and massacres of women and children are making headlines. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) released the son of convicted drug kingpin El Chapo rather…
July 24, 2019
World Of Freedom #2 : Awards for work for freedom
By Marek Tatała, Vice President, Civil Development Forum (Poland)Translation: Sylwia Szymańska It is important to appreciate outstanding liberty organizations and the people who participate in these important activities. One of the ways to show this appreciation is by means of…
December 7, 2018
Beyond Austrian Economics
By Dean Peng I am an Austrian school economist. The reason is purely logical: Austrian economics is the only logically consistent economics. However, I will not continue contrasting Austrian economics with other “schools” and argue why Austrian is correct others…
April 27, 2016
An Honest Look at Government Accounting
"Accounting is a tool to find the right person for the right job," said Hiroshi Yoshida at the World Conference on Market Liberalization in Bali in 2015, hosted by Liberty International. "If the performance is good," said professor Hiroshi Yoshida,…
October 20, 2015
Democratic Socialism – they’re baaaaaaack
I got into an online discussion the other day, slammed someone down hard, felt first smug, then kind of bad. Well I guess I started it. Vis-à-vis Bernie Sanders presidential campaign I said, “Socialists hate corporations so much they want…
September 9, 2015
Ken Schoolland in Mongolia
Ken Schoolland recently appeared on Mongolian National Broadcasting to speak about economics, and why the Austrian school is so important. Host: Please tell us about the, since we talk about the Austrian school of economics, and the certain direction of…
May 27, 2015
How Many Lies Does "The Good Lie" Tell?
In today’s Western society, with the overwhelming majority of us products of at least twelve years of mandatory government schooling, free market advocates are vastly outnumbered by defenders of the status quo. After all, what use does the state have…
February 23, 2015
What Cues Can South America Take From Europe?
Over the past few years Greece has probably made the news more than ever before. Whether it be protesters in the streets, election results, or the announcement of some new government policy, whatever happens in Greece seems to be written…
February 2, 2015
Lessons Unlearned From Brazil’s Recession
As she was sworn in for her second term last week Dilma Rousseff publicly stated government spending would have to be cut. Yes, you read that right; the leader of the Workers’ Party just said her own administration is spending…