Mises Daily

The lands were public and the firefighters government employees. These two facts have much to do with why they died. Walter Block explains. 

In the 1950s, the government hatched a plan for martial law, state-planned production, and rationing in the event of a nuclear holocaust. It would have failed.

A private rental-car company tries to protect its assets by enforcing speed limits. The state seriously objects. 

MetLife is under fire for doing exactly what insurance companies are supposed to do: matching risk with premiums. 

The Hirohito gold coin was fixed at a very high legal-tender value in terms of yen. Then the price of gold fell.

The Fed-fueled boom in Web commerce turned to bust, but that says nothing about the merit of the medium, writes Lew Rockwell.

It is the inevitable consequence of Fed interest-rate manipulations to disturb, disrupt, and disarrange economic activity, writes Hans Sennholz.

A former secretary of labor regrets the state's declining effective power over economic life. A review by Christopher Westley. 

Tax protestors prevailed and stopped a new tax. Some lawmakers called it "mob rule," but it was really just state taxpayers trying to preserve liberty.

Conservatives' idea of public policy is to outspend the statists and outregulate the regulators. And, writes Norman Barry, they have lost six million votes since 1992.