Mises Daily

State medical boards, writes Henry E. Jones, masquerade as consumer protection agencies to get public support, police powers, and taxpayer dollars.

Few Americans consider themselves at significant risk from ugly or misshapen tomatoes, writes Gary Galles. 

Antony Mueller asks: Are central banks up to their job by now? 

To paraphrase Mark Twain, it's a difference of opinion that makes a horse race. And for most people the most critical race of all is to amass sufficient assets to live a comfortable retirement.

For the past few weeks, William Anderson has been following the Richard Scrushy trial in Birmingham, Alabama.

The consequences of government control over such stock-market investments would be extremely grave, writes George Reisman. But there is another way.

Russia, like the US, has a tax law. It is their current substitute for the knout of Czarist days, writes Ted Roberts.

Sean Corrigan asks the crucial question: if the causes of the business cycle are that well known and understood, why can't business wise up and avoid the trap of making clusters of investment errors?

How does any political movement that begins by being opposed to the state avoid being absorbed by the state? The most crucial step, writes Lew Rockwell, is to decide what you are for and what you are against from the very outset.

In his newly-released federal budget President George W. Bush promises to reduce farm subsidies. Predictably, writes Tom DiLorenzo, on the day the budget was made public there were well-choreographed "protests" by all the usual suspects.