Mises Daily

Every day, before waking, I use a number of items my hands could not create in a thousand lifetimes.

Bernanke's policy gun is out of bullets. His policies have brought low growth, high unemployment, and a 7.2 percent increase in producer prices over the last 12 months. Attempts at stabilization have instead wrought chaos.

The Fed's entire policy program suffers from the same defect that all market interventions suffer from. The moment you stop intervening, the underlying problems come to the surface again. Administrative price setting does not change economic reality, at least not for the better.

Even the most mundane job involves a wealth of details that the average person often overlooks.

Chartier amasses point after point in his relentless case against the state.

Texans are suffering terribly. Some pray for rain. Some curse Mother Nature. They should be cursing the government and praying for freedom from the environmental bureaucrats who have caused this shortage of water. Murray Rothbard predicted this in 1993.

There can be no doubt: even a little bit of freedom lifts people up, even the poorest countries.

Will goods and resources be directed by markets or political officials? That is the great debate.

When Khrushchev said, "We will bury you," he meant it. Communists buried 85 million people in the 20th century.

Pundits today decry the decline in the number of moderate lawmakers. They call for compromise and label any attachment to the principle of self-ownership "extremism." In 1830, Frédéric Bastiat offered a dead-on discussion of the same problem in France.