Mises Daily

The good news is that mice can scare elephants, writes Alberto Mingardi, and that happens from time to time. It can happen again.

Gene Callahan argues that despite vast research and erudition, Jared Diamond has little understanding of what history actually is.

This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the most famous political commentators about America. 

Although, on a global level, consumer price inflation appears rather muted at present, writes Thorsten Polleit of Barclays, there are indications that the devaluation of money might be taking a new route.

P. Garden Goldsmith writes on a hidden effect of the (wrongly named) Earned Income Tax Credit.

What if anything should be done about the trade deficit? Stefan Karlsson refutes the two most common views of the implications.

Thomas Woods reflects on the response to his popular history book, a book written in-between two other works serving primarily academic markets. When they stop attacking you, he concludes, you have ceased to do real history.

The ADA has somehow managed to brand every disabled person as a pariah and caused the truly disabled to experience even more discrimination relative to the less disabled, writes Lew Rockwell.

Toby Baxendale argues that Austrian economics has its own contribution to make to the method of hedge funds.

In its current form Freddie Mac is a mercantilist company, and as such, it is not a good example of free enterprise, write Paul Cleveland and Michael Tucker.