Mises Daily

Between the right's love for military socialism and the left's love of forced de-industrialization, together with the perpetual menace of politicians' clamor to make history, the cause of liberty needs even more ardent defenders.

Though some comic fans will be quick to put the blame at the foot of Marvel for price increases, they would be more correct to blame the Federal Reserve, the "publisher" responsible for the creation of our supply of dollars. Though society has come to accept the general rise in prices as a normal part of our lives, before the founding of the Federal Reserve and the removal of the US dollar from the gold standard, prices held relatively steady.

I hold him to have been one of our century's great intellectual figures, whose neglect by mainstream academicians is inexcusable.

Contrary to mainstream thinking, the Austrian framework shows that it is the importance of various ends that determine the selection of goods by individuals. The means-end framework also shows that the prices of goods are not set mechanically by some kind of supply-demand curves but by the goal-seeking choices of individuals.

Chodorov's brilliant assessment of the State is a vital contribution both to historical understanding and to the defense of liberty.

What does Mises mean by saying, "The revolt against reason was directed against another target. It did not aim at natural sciences, but at economics"?

Books about libertarianism don't often make the mainstream radar screen.

A bailout is nothing less than a wealth transfer to those who made ill-advised credit decisions.

Adding more government intervention in virtually every aspect of our lives because politicians who oppose war call everything else a war, cannot stand up to careful examination.

The integrity of the scientific community will win out in the end, following the evidence wherever it leads. But in the meantime, the effect of the political climate is that most people are overestimating the evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming.