Mises Daily

Bush is vastly increasing arts funding. Why? Hans Frank suspects a political agenda.

Christopher Mayer explains why an Austrian analysis starts by examining the preceding boom phase of the business cycle.

Robert Murphy shows what's wrong with Piero Sraffa's case against the market economy.

Bruce Caldwell has adopted a sensible strategy to cope with the formidable task he has set himself.

The US government is the world's largest debtor with deficits feeding debts that pile on in increasingly larger numbers of numbing proportions, writes Christopher Mayer.

If a churchman possessed some special insight into economics merely by virtue of his exalted authority, asks Thomas Woods, why not into other scientific disciplines as well?

The government has no business stockpiling anything, including oil. But when three socialist amigos like Senators Charles Schumer of New York, Barbara Boxer of California and Harry Reid of Nevada all urged the Bush administration recently to help ease gasoline prices by releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), you know what's up. These three are all facing the voters come November, and they know from their many years in politics that nothing agitates the boobeoisie and engenders conspiracy theories like high gas prices.

William Anderson examines the common myths of the gas price increase, and then turns to the question of why prices are as high as they are.

Mises, in his great 1944 work on national socialism, examines the ideology of Nazi anti-Semitism and its inextricable link to anti-capitalism.

Anyone who has spent any time on college campuses knows that most college faculty members are left-leaning and likely vote Democrat, if not Green or Socialist. So when a study recently found 91 percent of the UNLV faculty is liberal, it was not exactly earth-shattering news. Although the study's finding — that UNLV is slightly more liberal than even UC Berkeley — does give one pause.