Mises Daily

Gregory Bresiger draws the parallels: an unpopular war, a big-spending Republican president, an economy threatened by price controls.

The rhetoric of environmentalism, writes Ronald Hamowy, consistently displays an ignorance and simple-mindedness that is breathtaking.

Roderick Long talks about value-subjectivism, and where Austrian economics is supposed to endorse a subjective sense of value.

Murray Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against people. Libertarianism is Rothbard's radical alternative, and the book is newly available.

Vedran Vuk says that changing one law can prevent the city's continued decline and fall of New Orleans. The edict that must be removed is the monopoly on gambling held by Harrah's casino.

Whenever I engage anyone in a discussion about getting rid of government, the first question I’m posed with is: “what about the roads?&

In order to reach the neutral interest rate and hence price stability, writes Frank Shostak, the central bank must be forward-looking. Then the Fed ends up chasing its own tail. 

 Robert LeFevre says that the original Aunt Jemima (Jemima Nicholas) was a Welsh woman who may have prevented the expansion of the French Empire.

Everyone interested in ideas has surely had the following experience. You become curious about a certain topic.

     After fifteen years of economic transformation we can conclude that the transitional period in post-Communist countries ha