Mises Daily Articles

Was the Potato Famine an ecological accident, as historians usually say, or a politically created one?

Modern health "insurance" is really just a wealth-transfer scheme that now ignores risk and true costs...

For decades, American military strategy has amounted to little more than outspending all adversaries. Vietnam and Korea showed this strategy sometimes fails, although it often works as long as the money keeps flowing. But the financial good times won’t last forever...

Many commentators focus on immigrants when declaring that people who live off government spending should not be able to vote. However, there is no lack of longtime citizens who also have an incentive to keep the tax money flowing as long as possible.