Infrastructure in the UK
byBy Valentin Boboc New research from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) reveals the true scale of Britain’s infrastructure crisis, showing that the UK…
Economics
Quibbling Over the Definition of Private Property
byBy Wanjiru Njoya Property rights are defined in many ways. It often happens that academics who are interested in the scope, regulation, or protection of private…
Hansard: Discussion on “Banks of Issue” from 1875
byBanks Of IssueVolume 223: debated on Tuesday 13 April 1875 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1875-04-13/debates/a60e4abe-0ad1-46ba-bc04-ca783527f0d4/BanksOfIssue Nomination Of Select Committee THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER moved “That the Select…
Speech in Florence on AI, Culture and the Italian Renaissance
byEarlier this year I gave this speech in Florence on AI, culture and the Italian Renaissance. In this talk I go through what we…
Bond vigilantes for Dummies
byA few weeks ago, the Labour back-bencher, Paula Baker, was held to have disgraced herself with remarks revealing that she hadn’t much of a…
Why the French Revolution Was Not a Libertarian Revolution
byThis essay is adapted from a lecture presented at Mises University, July 25, 2026. Source: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution By Ryan McMaken A common misconception about the French…
Speech at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
byThis speech came about following the book I just published with Lord Fairfax, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution. The book has chapters from many of…
What’s in your wallet ?
by“At precisely the moment civilization celebrates digital currencies, tokenized assets, algorithmic settlement systems, cloud-based records, and increasingly abstract forms of ownership, many of the…
Why a BRICS Gold Standard Is a Fiction
byBy Jeremy E. Powell Ever since the sanctions onto Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, combined with real domestic economic anxieties of the post-pandemic…
The biggest virtue ?
by“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.” Warren Buffett Dow Jones Industrial Average, December 31st 1964 price…