Mises Daily

How the lottery is being used to swell the public sector, and why the gambling industry is going along. 

The 1999 Nobel Laureate in economics on the origins of gold as a monetary instrument, and why it is so reviled by backers of political intervention. 

Intellectuals who long for the supposed good-old days of traditional life—and their tacit support of the managerial state. (Article by Paul Gottfried). 

Another day, another politician blasts economics as a discipline and political issue. (Column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

The really terrifying prospect is having to live a life entirely "naturally." 

So long as the Fed has the power to print, the boom-bust cycle is here to stay. (Paper by Frank Shostak)

Regulators claim to guarantee equality of  information, but no market can live up to that standard.

MCI WorldCom and Sprint should be permitted to merge, regardless of what Washington regulators say. 

The old formula is at work: distract the people from internal corruption. (Article by Yuri N. Maltsev)

The US education system needs "shock therapy."  (Article by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)