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Karel Havlíček was a Czech journalist and economic thinker who dared to challenge the authority of the Austrian Empire.

Defeat is painful, but it is absolutely necessary for growth.

Sometimes good intentions lead to bad outcomes, and that's never as true as when governments make sweeping rules and regulations.

Montesquieu was such an important influence that he's been called the “Ideological co-founder of the American Constitution.”

Teasing out actionable policy from election results is not only impossible but irresponsible.

With no individual rights, there is no meaningful community, and with no community, there is nothing more than every man for himself.

In the region formerly known as Yugoslavia, everyone speaks the same basic language, despite the individual countries' governments insisting that they don't.

People will look back on the cryptocurrency naysayers of today with the same incredulity that we have for the telephone cynics of 1876.

The party created to oppose consolidation of power by bankers and elites can now openly embrace the man who unapologetically advocated for it.

Collective rights and individual rights cannot coexist. One always trumps the other.

The term Marx coined stuck and has led to some confusion about why markets actually work.

The FBI's sordid history of withholding and destroying key evidence deserves a reckoning.

The Bitcoin buying frenzy most closely resembles the speculative purchase of Google shares than the tulip craze.

Conventional wisdom acknowledges that those who teach often learn the best, and this fact is now backed by science.

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Raising a worker's minimum wage doesn't magically increase their productivity, so something has to give somewhere.

When the individual has no rights, only duties.

A very bad situation keeps getting worse.

Is this an institution that overtly and inadvertently encourages the use of lethal force?

Unjust laws should be repealed, not just ignored.

The popularity of socialist leaders isn't necessarily a sign that people have turned against the market.

Nationalism is the second deadliest political ideology of the 20th century.

As free-market capitalists and advocates for liberty, it is clear that we have work to do.

As a species, we are willing to believe in doomsday scenarios that virtually never materialize.

The main take-away from the movie is that freedom is our true hero.

What ultimately matters is what we receive in exchange for what we produce.

Consumers and producers “speak” to each other through the prices that are offered on the market.

Companies put in a lot of time and effort figuring out ways to attract and retain workers.

New approaches that are not empirical or data-driven won't fix the problem and may make matters worse.

Now, the ten-year betting period is officially over.

Policies that increase the cost of labor decrease the availability of grocery stores.

If the current deregulatory momentum is sustained, the United States will rise in rankings and Americans will be richer.

Before he made it big, a teacher told him he wouldn't amount to anything.

Creating culture out of nature.

The collective panic attack over the prospect of pumping their own gas is a perfect example of why dumb regulations exist.

Please join FEE in offering a hearty congratulations to Ms. Savannah Lindquist!

California plays strongly to type by legalizing recreational weed but putting outrageous taxes on it.

Some percentage of the consumer base would still value the quality assurance of approved drugs.

Government doling out funding for research naturally leads to money being allocated to those with the better lobbyists, not necessarily the more worthy cause.

Bitcoin and other crypto assets are tipping the established balance of power.

Archbishop Damaskinos was already a hero of 20th-century Greece. And then the Nazis came.

The shipping container is the unappreciated contemporary hero.

The hyperbole surrounding the inevitable effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ranges from lurid to outright laughable.

Protectionists are rightly concerned about the world's problems, but they're wrong about how to solve them.

The push toward “scientification” has impoverished both Economics and the humanities.

True money is fungible.

Given the overwhelming size of the United States regulatory burden, we need to have a tough conversation about what we regulate and why.

Many economists have written on the topic of liberalism, but few have explained it as poetically as the great Ludwig von Mises.