Mises Daily

Cast aside all the trumped up claims concerning the power of the central bank to achieve price stability, writes Antony Mueller.

Everything we have heard from conventional wisdom regarding the minimum wage is false, writes Shawn Ritenour.

Kant belongs to the classical liberal tradition, writes Marcus Verhaegh, and his view of property ownership shows why.

In a recent letter to the editor published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, police officer Ruben E. Hood makes the claim that the Nevada Public Employee Retirement System "is one of the healthiest, most financially sound retirement systems in the country." Officer Hood is no doubt just parroting what he has been told, writes Doug French.

Stefan M.I. Karlsson examines the claims of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis that neither Donald Duck nor Scrooge McDuck can earn more than the average.

The "superior bargaining power" argument has always been the most important argument on behalf of unionism and of all the legislative privileges that unions enjoy. Thomas DiLorenzo points to Mises's demolition of the idea.

So long as we get liberty, the name doesn't matter, writes Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. But it does matter that the Bush campaign would take unto itself a term like "ownership" in an attempt to dupe people.

The Deficit Twins, are, at best, fraternal, not identical, writes Sean Corrigan. In the last six years, US defense spending has risen 60% and four-fifths of this increase has taken place just since the present Administration took office.

Is Australia a dry country? Not at all, writes Benjamin Marks. It has more rainfall than the United States!

Gilligan's Island economics can provide useful thought experiments, writes B.K. Marcus, for the same reasons Robinson Crusoe economics has served as a staple of classical and Austrian School economics texts.