Mises Daily

When the state passes a law, even if trivial, it backs that law by the threat of force. Sometimes it actually uses it. Ray Haynes explains. 

Will the free market underproduce roads? Not a chance. Chris Westley explains how government intervention causes traffic congestion. 

Why are some of the top names in the securities industry cooperating with an obvious shakedown racket? Gregory Bresiger explains what's behind the Wall Street Project.

What are prices and what do they reveal about future events? Gene Callahan explains.

Conservation is not an exercise in saving us from ourselves. It is an attempt by the political classes to criminalize choices that we would make in a free market.

The media’s favorite phony solution to the economic downturn is for the Fed to drop interest rates lower and lower until the economy registers an upturn. What is wrong with this approach?

History is never as clear-cut as it is taught in public schools, but in this instance, something very strange is afoot. Tibor Machan discusses new revelations on nineteenth-century American history. 

Mary McGrory, writing for The Washington Post, sees government failure all around her, yet calls for government to do ever more to help the poor, Adam Young discusses the error.

If power-hungry government officials and misanthropic environmentalists would get out of the way, California could avoid energy shortages this summer. George Reisman explains. 

Mark Skousen is not easy to satisfy. "In 1980," he informs us, "I asked Murray Rothbard to write an alternative to Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers" (p.9).