Mises Daily

For a decade, calls for easy money and cheap credit were subdued. But now that hard times are upon us again, guess what? Martin Masse explains.

Pundits often blame tight money for economic downturns. But what about the loose money policies that created the unsustainable boom in the first place? John Cochran explains.

President Bush stands accused of using his supposedly superhuman powers to drive us into recession. William Anderson wonders whether he will also be accused of casting spells to bring down the Dow.

Mises's "regression theorem" demonstrates that money must have a preexisting demand as a commodity. What does that tell us about the hype over proposed digital currencies? Timothy Terrell explains.

The company is right to refuse a customer who wanted to use its products to advertise bad economic theory. William Stepp also explains why Nike ought to keep its "sweatshops" open. 

Dinesh D'Souza's new book on the moral conundrum of success is one of the best popular treatments on the cultural meaning of prosperity to appear in many years. Reviewed by Jeffrey Tucker.

It was once an economic powerhouse, feared by the U.S., but Keynesian-style macroeconomic planning led to its undoing. William Anderson explains how and why it happened.

There was a time when the word reform described a process of renewal, of change, and of taking new steps towards correcting a problem. With the rise of campaign finance reform, that is no longer the case.

Conflict will forever plague public education so long as its users have different expectations and values. There is only one way out of this mess, writes Tibor Machan, and the solution is far-reaching and radical.

Attachment to tradition and free-market sensibilities are often thought to be in conflict. What, then, are we to make of the new Richard Weaver collection that recommends Ludwig von Mises to all students?