Mises Daily

Without economic knowledge, the world as it works will forever remain a strange and mysterious place.

As theory and evidence suggests, market-oriented reforms are not faith-based initiatives. They are our only hope for the long run.

DiLorenzo identifies the inception of a basic and malign influence, economic nationalism, on American history.

These four novels are of definite ideological interest to libertarians

The lesson to be learned from the success of Farber is that truly private education is plausible and even preferable to the current education provided by the government.

To believe that, absent government, folks would not help the poor is to turn one's back on history. In addition, to destroy capital in the name of ending poverty simply impoverishes us all.

Christmas can survive and thrive even if it is not culturally dominant.

The Federal Reserve should not make a credible commitment to future inflation as a means of stimulating aggregate demand. The Federal Reserve should instead reverse its low-interest-rate policy before it increases the level of discoordination in the economy.

A punk economy is doing what legislators around the country could never do: shrink state and local governments.

Many people were outwitted by Madoff. Many more people are today being outwitted by the government and its central bank. And it will all end in disgrace and disaster, only on a far, far grander scale.