Mises Daily

In the wake of the tsunami disaster in Indonesia, governments throughout the world are doing what governments always do: throwing money at the problem, writes Thomas DiLorenzo.

The original vision that the creators of PayPal had in mind, writes William Anderson, was a system that would permit people around the world not only to be able to pay each other via the Internet, but also to be able to protect themselves when their governments were inflating their currencies.

The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism to almost totalitarian statist nationalism.

The correlation between poverty and destruction resulting from natural disaster seems to hold up not only with a cross-section of nations, but also over time, writes Timothy Terrell.

Surely, no one would dare to apply the Bastiat's Broken Window fallacy to the human tragedy that is still playing itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. And yet Chris Westley has discovered that at least one economist has done so.

Thomas Woods's superb new book has already achieved fame as the first Austrian-inspired book to be on the New York Times bestseller list

The dollar has hit a new low in recent months on the international currency exchange. The blame is falling from most sectors of public opinion on our legislature, writes Katy Harwood Delay, with its debt spending at an all-time high.

Every winter of bad weather brings us the same scenes of bleak road and highway conditions. Paul Servodio suggests one fix: eliminate public ownership and all that goes with it. 

Robert Murphy concedes that it is theoretically possible that an expanded global marketplace could make one country less wealthy on net. However, there are other considerations.

Obesity may be an individual problem, writes Tibor Machan. But it is not a social problem in the sense that this phrase is usually employed.