Mises Daily

There is not a living soul who is willing to call the Iraq war a success. At the end of the day, all that Bush will leave is debt, death, and disaster.

In an age of intellectual hyperspecialization, writes Hans Hoppe, Murray N. Rothbard was a grand system builder.

In a letter to Mill, dated July 27, 1820, Ricardo refers to the doctrine that a general overproduction is impossible and that capital can never increase too rapidly, as "Say's and your doctrine of accumulation."

People voting for the minimum wage indulge a fantasy that they are helping the hard-working down-on-his-luck adult minimum-wage earner who is struggling to support a family. Instead they are preventing the sweet, earnest but maybe-a-little slow kid living down the block from getting that first job, because his output does not reach the economic level required by a wage that government has set too high.

Unfortunately, the problem with antitrust regulation is not what we see, but what we don't see.

The individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

The American government today, drawing from the largest economy in the world, has far more scope and power to wreak havoc on voluntary exchange across borders, with the prohibition of trade with Cuba entering its forty-fourth year of futile immiseration.

The authors do an excellent job of identifying four potential sources of the housing price explosion.

Root's low tax, small-government message falls flat when he repeatedly gushes over George Bush when in fact Bush is presiding over the largest expansion of government since LBJ.

All those hoping to reap the inequitable riches from yet another highly inflationary year — a much less arduous task than that of creating real wealth or generating genuine income — will just have to hope he is right.