Mises Daily

Some people think coupons and targeted discounts are a racket. Here I argue that they are wholly justified.

Every student in a money-and-banking course should read this book at least twice.

The ghostwriting black market is a slice of spontaneous order that has arisen from the need to circumvent the inefficiencies of the public-education system. The industry is so profitable that some even make it a full-time job.

At last, everyone agrees that the US economy is sinking into the morass of depression. The question is why.

The tendency for politicians and technocrats in search of solutions is to devise grandiose plans that involve more testing, regulation, and spending. However, these schemes do nothing to alleviate the root cause of the problem.

Mitchell's book on the American political landscape seems to leave out those who believe in liberty alone.

"Desertion" sounds ominous, but it merely describes the right to quit.

How can the law or courts fix the exact line as to how bad a man might be to deserve punishment, and how good to excuse it?

"Second-best" policy recommendations can never find perfection (by definition). But if we are going to have the government providing a monopoly of domestic currency, Ludwig von Mises's proposal for a return to a gold standard is theoretically elegant and eminently practical.

We have a government that cannot control its spending, and we have a national debt that cannot possibly be paid back.