Mises Daily

The definition of freedom is not complicated, writes Lew Rockwell. Freedom means that which the government does not control.

William Anderson says that Hawaii's attempt to place a price control on the wholesale price of gas will lead shortages.

Laurence Vance has observed three points about the federal government's mandated handicapped parking spaces, as required for every private business.

Index targeting is widely viewed as a state-of-the-art concept, writes Thorstein Polleit. But in Mises's view, the very idea of measuring price levels toward stabilization is theoretically untenable and politically dangerous.

A highly fashionable brand of neuroscience claims that empirical investigation of brainwaves has essentially refuted the idea of universal norms. This is not science, writes "Lucretius."

The recent run-up in oil prices drew interesting reactions, writes Pierre Lemieux. Some analysts have tried to explain how reductions of crude demand by refineries can push crude prices up!

When the State of Alabama recently announced that it was banning the importation of Vietnamese basa fish, writes William Anderson, officials even intimated that some sneaky terrorists might use it kill Americans.

These days, writes Frank Shostak, it is commonly accepted that the motor of the economy is overall demand for goods. Hence the growth of an economy is dependent on the strength of this motor. 

From the point of view of economic rationality, ethanol makes no sense, writes Peter Anderson. If it did, it wouldn't need subsidies to bring it into existence and make it marketable.

Walter Block presents his strategic agenda for Austrians or libertarians, Misesians or Rothbardians, anarcho-capitalists or minarchists, or any combination thereof.