Mises Daily

"In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread!" But everyone wants as much bread and as little sweat as possible. This is the conclusion of history.

Vlad Tepes III, the man who would become the inspiration for Count Dracula, was one of the most atrocious and cruel tyrants in history.

The Dutch West India Company had many valuable and important interests, of which the colony of New Netherland was one of the least valued.

Capitalism needs more foul-weather friends, not fair-weather friends like the governor of New Jersey.

Robert Higgs's concept of <em>regime uncertainty</em> has caught on with businessmen and the press.

A fallacy sometimes shrinks and contracts, assumes the guise of a principle, and lurks in a word or a phrase.

What the liberals maintain is that the immense majority prefer a life of health and abundance to misery, starvation, and death.

We are not revolutionaries. We must be patient. But the Internet is on the side of liberty.

We are stuck with another situation in which one form of government intervention creates unintended consequences that require further interventions.

An distinguished Irish philosopher defends forcefully and eloquently Rothbardian anarchism.