Mises Daily

The basic logic of Jane Jacobs’s work must lead an attentive reader inexorably to a libertarian view of human social relations.

If you are a wealthy person, beware. The estate tax will destroy what you have created through your hard work and diligence. Unless you have spent a small fortune on financial planners, accountants, and tax attorneys, the fruits of your labor may be enjoyed by the government.

How can Austrolibertarians reach the Left? Well, it depends which Left. 

Governments and bankers hate gold because its supply cannot be inflated on command.

I am a geek. But I often find that when a tech author is reporting on certain events, he lacks a proper understanding of economic theory.

Nothing so threatened the interests of this emerging industrial order as the free play of market forces at work in an environment of legally unrestrained competition.

A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew that I was going to hear either a self-critical explanation or, more likely, some hogwash. Hogwash won, hands down!

Hume concluded his penetrating analysis with an ultra-hard-money policy proposal — 100 percent specie-reserve banking.

With 25% more to fall, and many houses under water by thousands of dollars, or hundreds of thousands, what's the incentive to pay? If a borrower wants to work out a compromise in good faith, how can they know if they are negotiating with the right party? The mortgage mess is a house of mirrors.

I use the term "liberal" without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the shackles of the state.