Mises Daily

The mania for legislation would be, in an important degree, restrained if the government were compelled to pay the expenses of all the suits that grew out of it.

When John T. Flynn has put the Roosevelt myth through his terrible wringer and thrown aside the empty sack, all that remains of it is — the myth.

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.