Mises Daily

In a lifeboat situation, writes Murray Rothbard, we apparently have a war of all against all, and there seems at first to be no way to apply our theory of self-ownership or of property rights.

Under Alan Greenspan's rule at the Fed, the function of the central bank as a bailout institution has experienced a new golden age, writes Antony Mueller. 

Bruce Ramsey reports on his visit to a seminar conducted by Jeffrey Friedman of Barnard College. "The first day at Princeton has been a hosing-down."

The government stumbles or runs into crisis after crisis, writes Gregory Bresiger.

It was capitalism that finally ended the Great Depression, writes Tom DiLorenzo, not FDR's hair-brained cartel, wage-increasing, unionizing, and welfare state expanding policies. 

Charles Tomlinson remembers when the environmental movement screamed that the world as we knew it was destined to doom because of the nasty chip mills, the clear cut destruction of the forests, and the pollution of our waters caused by tree cutting.

If a Sun King, or a Robespierre, could bring about no identifiable or lasting increase in the commonwealth of the proud people under their rule, writes Sean Corrigan, what do we really think can be done by the current crop?

Americans have something in common with Iraqis, writes Lew Rockwell: experience has told us that when the government promises to bring us security, it means only that it wants more control over our lives.

The road to serfdom — in both Norway and America— is no coincidental detour, writes Ilana Mercer, but rather a well-charted destiny and often flows through mass political participation.

Mark Twain, in an unverified quote, once described a mine as "a hole in the ground owned by a liar." Using that definition, a horde of liars were in Las Vegas last week to pitch their projects and bright prospects to hundreds of gold geeks who attended the Gold & Precious Metals Conference.