Mises Daily

The prevailing trend toward what Hilaire Belloc called the servile state will certainly not be reversed if nobody has the courage to attack its underlying dogmas.

Much like the US's decision to save Bretton woods by coercing South African gold sales, today's governments will resort to ever more authoritarian measures rather than allowing their pet institutions to fail.

The modern freedom movement depended heavily on open-source materials.

Consider our corrupt Federal Reserve System as the ultimate cause of our economic woes.

Burt's support was more than financial; he also offered his time and energy with great generosity.

Falling prices, far from being deflation, are actually the antidote to deflation.

Ultimately, then, the effects of Earth Hour boil down to dim rhetoric. Maybe as much attention should be placed on humanity's hot air footprint as its carbon one.

The power of creative energies to manifest themselves in the face of man-made obstacles accounts for the progress we observe even when the worst elements in society get on top

"If carbon dioxide is classified as a pollutant, then every breath we take can be regulated by government." That sums it up perfectly.

Paul Samuelson is the one who laid the theoretical foundation for this systemic anarchy. Milton Friedman then provided the emperor's new clothes, dressing it in the garb of neoliberalism. That is how these two leading figures in American economic thought were united in unleashing on the world community the system that has now collapsed.