Mises Daily

Haiti's government and other governments need to get out of the way and not make a market-based recovery process more difficult than it has to be.

Protectionism and all other forms of war by the state on its people are devastating, and need to be undone.

The total state claims the right to see you naked. A freer people would demand an end to such nonsense and the policies that perpetuate it.

"The Austrian School is the most humane form of economics we know, and the most philosophically informed — hence we regard it as the most relevant to humanistic studies."

When interest rates drop, entrepreneurs have no reliable way to tell whether, and to what extent, the drop is caused by (A) true increases in the ongoing flow of investable resources or by (B) what amounts to a temporary series of one-time transfers of wealth into the loan market. With such Fed-imposed blindness to the true data of the market, businesses across the whole economy are bound to make malinvestments.

Cather's most straightforwardly economic book is O Pioneers! (1913).

Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.

The taxation approach taken by Senate Democrats is a purely foolish method of funding regulations that are themselves horrible.

All the oratory of the advocates of government omnipotence cannot annul the fact that there is but one system that makes for durable peace: a free market economy. Government control leads to economic nationalism and thus results in conflict.

In a governmentally controlled society, the unrestricted enjoyment of property ownership is not permitted, since government has the power to tax, regulate, and sometimes even confiscate (as in eminent domain) just about anything it pleases. In a laissez-faire society, everything which was valued and rationally claimed would be owned, and this ownership would be total.