Mises Daily

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. 

Lenin once dismissed the question of how socialism would work by pointing to the workings of the post office. Gregory Bresiger tried his best to avoid this pocket of socialism, but it was just unavoidable.

According to the ethos of this national holiday, writes T. Norman Van Cott, the only way to "make a difference" is when you do things outside the commercial marketplace. 

Billions and billions were spent to elect our leaders, and Erich Mattei draws attention to the sheer waste of it all. 

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"He who rejoices that peoples are turning away from liberalism, should not forget that war and revolution, misery and unemployment for the masses, tyranny and dictatorship are not accidental companions, but are necessary results of the antiliberalism that now rules the world." —Ludwig von Mises 

The average family will spend about $1000 on Christmas gifts, writes Lew Rockwell, and much of what we buy might be described as rather shoddy. Paradoxically, this is not a bad thing but a sign of rising wealth.

Most everyone assumes that capital exploits labor, writes Vlad Menshikov. But this point of view is completely wrong. 

In the Paris of the 1720s, writes Sean Corrigan, there took place a duel; a contest of both wills and intellects.