Mises Daily

What should you give up in order to make your payments? Food, education, transportation, funds to live on in old age?

Unemployment, stagnant growth, and financial market convulsions can all be traced to a single decision.

David Graeber's new book allegedly destroys the standard account of the origin of money. If correct, Graeber's views would prove embarrassing to the Austrian School, because it was Carl Menger who developed the first systematic explanation for how people went from barter to a full-blown monetary economy.

Ludwig von Mises was born in Lviv, but the specific place of his birth remained unknown.

An old Polish soldier who had settled in London after World War II exposed me to the teachings of Hayek when I was sixteen years old.

In his speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Fed chairman disappointed most pundits. He did not promise another massive infusion of fake money, i.e., QE3. I suspect that a strengthening in bank lending is an important factor behind the Fed's decision to postpone it.

Libertarians have as much claim to be champions of the working people — and, in many cases, a far better claim — than socialists do.

It is not the band members — composers and performers — who usually object to being covered and remixed.