Mises Daily

Created in the name of free trade, and even backed by some free traders, the World Trade Organization has become what its fine-print promised it would  be: a vehicle for economic planning.

Only 1 in 10 taxpayers are willing to send money to the presidential election fund. What does that tell us, asks Lew Rockwell, about public sentiment concerning government?

It's an illusion and a fraud that there is any stable system between productive capitalism and impoverishing socialism, argues Tibor Machan.

The free economy has liberated the human spirit to produce a level of prosperity unknown in the history of the world. (Opinion column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

Should skydiving and other risky practices be permitted or banned? Tibor Machan argues that only market exchange on private property provides a coherent answer. 

The real meaning of Thanksgiving: Plymouth was a socialist colony and it failed miserably.

A scheme heralded by the political elite turns out to be an economic fiasco everywhere it has been tried, argues Jeffrey Tucker.

Does Alan Greenspan have a theory or is he just winging it? (Commentary by James Grant) 

Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
 

Timothy Terrell, reviewing an important new book,  examines a central theoretical flaw behind the attack on Microsoft.