Mises Daily

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.

There will always be "political pilgrims" who say otherwise. This is a phrase coined by the sociologist Paul Hollander, who documented the absurd travels of Western leftists to remote parts of the world where communism was being tried out. They invariably found a future of prosperity, freedom, and justice for all, and developed an incredible blindness to terror, starvation, and despotism of all sorts, dismissing it as necessary to block the work of evil dead-enders. Also, in another famous excuse, if the government has to expend so many resources on fighting off dissidents, it couldn’t make basic provisions for the masses – or so goes the claim.