Mises Daily

Everybody is free to join the ranks of the three progressive classes of a capitalist society.

Lefties have protested against Chiquita Banana for so long that most activists probably forget why they are supposed to hate the company.

Ludwig von Mises opined in the 1920s that Bastiat’s “critique of all protectionist and related tendencies is even today unsurpassed. The protectionists and interventionists have not been able to advance a single word in pertinent and objective rejoinder.”

In our world of interventionist laws and regulations, I have found a Rothbardian island, so to speak — a place where the ethics of liberty live.

After taking office, President Obama massively expanded regulation, from Obamacare to the proliferation of regulatory czars, and proposed still more.

The "knotty problems" Gold describes are just the failure of the theories of Keynes and Friedman to adequately explain the recession of 2008 and plot a proper course out of the downturn.

The political project of the euro is in deep trouble. Governments have pledged three-quarters of a trillion of our euros to put out the debt-crisis wildfire, yet interest rates on troubled sovereign debts are even higher than before the announcement of the bailout.

I am pleased to announce that, starting July 20, I (and guest lecturer Peter Klein) will offer a Mises Academy class, <a href="http://academy.mises.org/courses/production/">Production and the Market Process</a>.

How many bystanders am I justified in murdering in order to eliminate someone trying to kill me? If I abandon the principle of not harming innocents, what standard should I use to calculate how many innocent people I may murder in the process of protecting myself?

Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed.