Mises Daily

"If you give the State power to do something for you, you give it an exact equivalent of power to do something to you."

It is a common idea that an increased quantity of money in an economy decreases the rate of interest. This idea is not always true or accurate.

The fascist form of interventionism in America was built on the rump of state corporatism that emerged during the Progressive Era and the experience of state planning during the First World War.

Discipline after discipline has been invaded by an arrogant band of hermeneuticians, and now even economics is under assault.

The aim of the law should not be to constrict but to maximize price freedom and market freedom.

In that epoch of virtually unchallenged Keynesian ascendancy, Hutt's work was a beacon for those who defended the truth that economics is about the choices and actions of real human beings.

A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because it is impossible to appraise the result of a bureaucrat’s effort in terms of money, however important his "output" may be. 

Misesian economics is a foremost threat to the state for it explains the working of the natural order of society and the crippling effects of state interference.

Quite unlike the Christian view, Hegelian and Marxist thought depends on the idea of a universe in which a cosmic blob  of "humanity" is reunited with God through the "dialectic."

War is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals. How many wars have met this criterion?