A Brief History of Tariffs and Stock Market Crises
Tariffs don‘t just raise consumer prices. They also affect capital flows and on numerous occasions have triggered stock market crises. What tariffs don‘t bring is prosperity.
The cellular router and gateway market sees steady growth driven by enterprise demand and 5G adoption
Berg Insight, the world’s leading IoT market research provider, today released new findings about the market for cellular routers and gateways. More than 6.3 million cellular routers and gateways were…
There’s No Market Process Independent of Competition
Interventionists often claim that market economies naturally lead to monopolies, which mean there is no more economic competition. However, within market processes, there always is competition unless government authorties themselves…
Lessons from Reconstruction
Using state power to enforce social orthodoxy is always a recipe for disaster. Radical Republican governments in the post-war South attempted to do just that, sowing seeds is hatred and…
The Great Political Divide in America
When politics invades our lives, cooperation is replaced with coercion and conflict.
Private-Sector Jobs Went Negative in October. Will the Fed Panic Again?
For the first time since 2020, private-sector employment fell during October, while full-time jobs fell again. Will the Fed cuts rush to “stimulate” the economy?
Unpacking Mises: Fractional Reserve Banking and the Currency School
Mises Fellow Kristoffer Hansen joins Bob to discuss the controversy surrounding Mises’ perspective on fractional reserve banking and free banking.
Becoming Cato’s Fourth Director of Constitutional Studies
Thomas A. Berry In September I became the fourth director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. This is the biggest honor of my professional life, and it…