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What is a market?
What is a market? Economists often talk about markets as though they are natural forces that operate independently of society and government. In this Understanding Read the full ar...
Adam Smith: Rule of Law as the Backbone for Markets
Adam Smith’s 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is often described in casual conversation (at least by noneconomists) as a manifesto for the...
Permitting Reforms Are Good Politics and Good for Markets
As D.C. Embraces State Economic Control, a Hopeful Project Seeks to Restore Free Enterprise
Government ownership of private companies threatens American prosperity.
‘It is important to allow markets togive their natural signal’
Ananth Narayan decodes the blind side of F&O excesses, market interventions and more
Who Needs Central Planning When We Have Conservatives?
Milton Friedman's monetarism is Keynesianism’s something-for-nothing variant.
The Courts Crucially Recognize That Prediction Markets Are Not Casinos
Gambling suffocates knowledge, while prediction markets reward knowledge on the path to the creation of abundant information that is wealth personified.
Grocery stores are a free-market success story
Food prices are a political flashpoint. In America’s most recent presidential election, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris promised to ban “price gouging” on groceries, while Republi...
My View on … Markets
This post is part of an ongoing series in which I set out my views on significant issues in economics, political economy, politics, taxation, and Read the full article...
Quote of the Day, September 2, 2026
“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” – Milton Friedman The post Quote of the Day, September 2,...
ALEXANDER: Nobel Prize Winner Milton Friedman Merits Praise in Age of Socialism
5o years ago, economist Milton Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Friedman distinguished himself with his belief in free-market capitalism with minimal government...
Prices as a Map for Minds That Can’t Know Everything
Reading Dean Ball’s recent essay “On the Loose” has me thinking about an old idea in a new light. Ball asks us to imagine a world containing “self-sovereign” AI agents. These are n...
Are Prediction Markets Just Gambling? Kalshi CEO Responds
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour discusses the fight to regulate prediction markets, why ordinary people can outperform Wall Street, and the future of American capitalism.
Prediction Markets: An Aggregation Of Knowledge That Casinos Suffocate
Let's not confuse the production of knowledge with its suffocation. The former is prediction markets, the latter is gambling.
Hyperliquid expands HIP-3 with permissioned markets
Hyperliquid has introduced a preliminary HIP-3 testnet upgrade that lets independent deployment teams control access to perpetual futures markets through deployer-managed on-chain...
Time for a return to free trade
Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux predict a Republican revolt against tariffs. Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting Americans. Real economic growth is slowing, consumer prices rising,...
Deregulating wheat, sugar markets
Can Pakistan deliver IMF-mandated reforms without triggering food, political crisis?
After Theology: The Hidden Origins of the Market
Jan Bentz, The Acton Institute Modern economics tends to understand itself as a discipline that has left behind the theological presuppositions of its own emergence. It operates i...
How To Make The Stock Market Work For The Middle Class, Not Just The Rich
The wealth effect of this single transaction could have been massive for everyday people. Now, only the super-affluent will benefit.
Making Economics Humane Again
The American vice-president, among others, is no great fan of global trade. He has criticized Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board, sugge...
Kalshi's CEO Wants 1 Set of Rules. The States Want 50.
Tarek Mansour argues prediction markets can police insider trading themselves, but regulators still see a gambling app.
Markets seize on clues by the US Federal Reserve
Kevin Warsh gave what was seen as his clearest signal yet that rates may need to rise to manage stubbornly high inflation .
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