Mises Daily

Once again, we are back to trusting the government to protect us, even at a time when property owners are begging for the right to provide their own protection.

President Bush claims that the war on terror "will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." Does that include the ELF?

Middle-class property owners of the world, disunite. You have a world to win back. Joseph Stromberg reviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe's, Democracy: The God That Failed. 

While not quite Keynesian pyramids or payments to farmers to plow up their surplus crops, this is still, sadly, yet another New Deal in the making.

It is no surprise that in our current crisis we see economic fallacies calling for "temporary" government interventions in the economy popping up like mushrooms after a rain. 

It is conceivable that stocks might have come back after September 11. But the meddlers in DC seemed to be doing everything in their power to drive it down and out.

Recent scrutiny over mutual fund disclosure practices comes amidst a flurry of rules, investigations, and regulatory pressure being applied to the broader securities industry. 

The U.S. government's recent show of force ostensibly to "close the barn door now that the horse has escaped" is not only misguided, it is dangerous for many reasons.

Whatever direction the stock market may take in the future, its opening day was a time for honest assessment of how the recent terrorist attacks and their aftermath may affect our economic future. 

No institution has a greater incentive to increase airline security than the airlines themselves, who have both property and paying customers to protect.