Category:Economics

May 29, 2025 | Video

Tariffs are not a negotiating tactic; they are a tax on YOU (not China), every single time. Join us for this takedown and breakdown of tariffs, as we journey through the relevant history and economics. HOW TO NOT BE AN NPC ON TARIFFS: Click here for a course that breaks down what tariffs really do—and […]

May 29, 2025 | Post

Libertarians often criticize the European Union because they view it as an overreaching bureaucratic institution that undermines individual liberty, national sovereignty, and free-market principles.  But beyond these regulations and bureaucracy, there are some aspects of the EU that promote individual and economic freedom. The Union promotes free trade, open borders, and the free movement of […]

May 27, 2025 | Post

🚨 Think you know the greediest corporation in America? Think again.

It’s not Walmart. Not Amazon. This one is

April 22, 2025 | Post

Are “workers’ rights” actually hurting workers? As tariffs and labor regulations grow in the U.S., small businesses are struggling with

April 8, 2025 | Video

What if you could actually travel into the past? What would it feel like, compared to the present? As much as the past gets romanticized, the truth is: It was dirtier, more dangerous, and less comfortable. Experience that reality for yourself in our Video Time Machine, from which you’ll relive the Year 2000, then 1950, […]

March 24, 2025 | Post

Ayn Rand vs. Libertarians: A Love-Hate Relationship? 🔥

February 19, 2025 | Post

As a way to empty out my notebook after SFL events, these What I Learned columns have become a favorite tradition of mine. And since this is LEARN Liberty, after all … let’s go. I learned what a Venezuelan 100-Bolivar bill looks and feels like. It was given out as a tangible reminder of the […]

February 11, 2025 | Post

CNB Governor Aleš Michl recently suggested that Bitcoin could become part of the bank’s reserves. Will this boost BTC’s legitimacy or contradict its core principles? Five Students For Liberty volunteers from Czechia share their perspectives, from enthusiastic support to strong opposition.

January 26, 2025 | Video

Robert Reich’s recent “debunking” series needed a debunking itself. Because, as John Stossel said, Reich is wrong about pretty much everything. Watch this video to see Learn Liberty’s own Antony Davies take down 7 of Reich’s most egregious errors. AND don’t forget: You can see Antony talk in person! Register for LibertyCon International right here: […]

November 12, 2024 | Post

In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Captain Freeman’s mission to “dismantle capitalism” on Targalus IX raises big questions, like: Can technology eliminate scarcity, or does demand for unique resources keep markets alive?

November 8, 2024 | Video

The road to communism is paved with good intentions, and price controls illustrate it perfectly. See how and why in this video, where you’ll learn the 7 fallout effects of one particular kind of price control: rent control. CHAPTERS 0:00 Paved with Good Intentions 0:53 Defining Price and Control 2:26: 7 Effects of Price Controls […]

November 8, 2024 | Video

Price gouging encourages competition by pressuring manufacturers and distributors to increase production, which over time, would actually drive down costs. Price controls during a time of crisis, however, do nothing to address the shortage problem.

November 1, 2024 | Post

Inflation hurts our spending capacity, diminishes our quality of life, dashes our hopes of upward mobility, and damages our trust in the cornerstone institutions of banks, dollars, and government.  Yet inflation is all around us. After purchasing my usual burrito bowl at Chipotle recently, I had to review my receipt to ensure I had been […]

October 18, 2024 | Post

Donald Trump famously promised to “drain the swamp” upon his election in 2016. And if you’ve ever been to Washington, D.C. in the summer, you know that’s not just a metaphor for the convoluted, bureaucratic political system: D.C. is a literal, humid, marshy swamp! Geography aside, now that the possibility of another Trump administration is […]

October 11, 2024 | Post

River Plate’s Climb to Football’s Summit Republished with the permission of the author and the We Are Innovation network In the world football arena, River Plate has reached a new peak. According to Transfermarkt, the internationally renowned statistics portal, El Monumental stadium now dominates the pantheon of stadium attendance records worldwide. With an impressive average […]

September 29, 2024 | Post

Happy birthday, Ludwig! As a Happy Birthday tribute to Ludwig von Mises (born Sept. 29, 1881), here’s what you need to know about his life … and what you need to know from his iconic treatise on economics, Human Action. The underappreciated economist Ludwig von Mises is today celebrated as one of the founding fathers […]

August 28, 2024 | Video

The Fed was created by the world’s richest people to increase their power. Here are 6 things that have gone horribly wrong since the Fed came into existence — according to Austrian economics.

August 22, 2024 | Post

Donald Trump proclaimed that he would consider naming Elon Musk to an advisory or cabinet role if he

August 15, 2024 | Post

Despite claims of environmental harm, Bitcoin’s impact is minimal compared to its global benefits!

August 9, 2024 | Post

In his 1850 essay, Frédéric Bastiat discusses the notion of “Public Works.” He explains that public works like opening roads, building palaces, and repairing streets create jobs and boost the economy in the short term, but they take away unseen opportunities in the long run.

August 8, 2024 | Post

The “Broken Window” parable by Frédéric Bastiat, from his 1850 essay “That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen,” reveals the fallacy of believing destruction boosts the economy.

July 30, 2024 | Video

In this video Reem walks us through 6 free-market principles that will maximize the likelihood of climate benefits in the future.

July 30, 2024 | Video

These free-market policies came about before most people had ever heard the term “climate change.”

June 25, 2024 | Post

While the free market reduces poverty, people criticize it because of economic inequality. Is this the real issue we should focus on?