Mises Daily

If Ludwig von Mises were alive today, he probably would not have been in the least surprised that the quants’ methods ultimately bore such bitter fruit.

If the government merely returned to its 2003 spending levels, then the current revenue stream would be enough to pay for everything.

Now that governments supposedly know with “scientific certainty” what constitutes “happiness,” there can be no argument (or so they think) against virtually unlimited government intervention in the name of creating happiness. Target: affluence.

They didn't listen then. But maybe they'll listen now. We need monetary freedom more than anything else.

It had become an underground classic, with dog-eared copies of the book fetching hundreds of dollars on Amazon before the Mises Institute republished it.

Is a second American revolution imminent? Frankly, I doubt it.

How do we know about the outer world — or reality, for that matter? Where does our knowledge about it come from? The attempt to answer these questions leads to epistemology, the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, scope, and validity of human knowledge.

Sleep tight; a few weeks ago the federal government announced it will implement a new cell-phone warning system.

Governments and their intellectual front men believe that nothing unites a population like a war. Actually, that's not quite true. If you truly want to unite a population, here is a key: drive the dictator out of the country. The fleeing of a despot always leads to unparalleled and authentic celebration.

Bernanke and other experts believe that it is possible to bring inflationary expectations to a state of equilibrium.