Mises Daily

In a brilliant lecture at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Sean Corrigan chronicles the failings of growth-driven government policies that impoverish in the long run.

Adam Young says that Robin Hood was a friend of the overtaxed, overregulated, and overgoverned masses.

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.