Richard Ebeling

At a time when serious concerns are being expressed and experienced about individual freedom and political self-government in America right now, it is worth remembering that you really don’t always appreciate what you’ve had until you’ve lost it

At a time when a wide variety of misguided and wrong-headed economic ideas are swirling around the arenas of public policy, it is worth taking note of 2021 being the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Austrian School of Economics

What might we glean about what may be ahead, not only from 2020, but from the first twenty years of the 21st century.

This year, 2020, has been a hard and disturbing one for virtually all of us due to the coronavirus and, especially, the government’s heavy-handed shutdown and lockdown responses

If there is one thing that drives many on the American political “left” crazy is it to remind them that the Nazis, also, were socialists, just not the kind, cuddly, “democratic” kind that makes them feel warm all over

The important task for those who value personal freedom, economic liberty and the free market economy is to disabuse our fellow citizens from thinking that what we have is a fully capitalist system

Why is the gold standard hated so much by these critics?

Americans Divided on the Most Important Issues

He claimed that the U.S. has suffered from almost 9 million Coronavirus cases and experienced 230,000 deaths all because Ayn Rand and libertarians in general teach a philosophy of misplaced “freedom”

There is no doubt that 2020 has become a unique event in almost everyone’s life due to the Coronavirus and the response of almost all governments everywhere in the world

All the opinion polls suggested that the VP debate did little or nothing to change voter decisions

The 1960s song, “If I Ruled the World,” captures the premises and presumptions of those who want to remake society in their own collectivist images

A counter-revolution against freedom is busy at work in the United States today, and it is, perhaps, not surprising that one of its targets has become the late free market economist, Milton Friedman