Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in...

Jeff Bezos’s Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity

08/05/2025 Power & Market Lipton Matthews

A yacht—like any good exchanged on the free market—represents countless value-maximizing exchanges and represents an industry that employs thousands of people to provide goods and services to others.

How Does Money Acquire its Value?

08/04/2025 Mises Wire Frank Shostak

Thanks to modern Keynesian economics, most people believe money gains its value from the government that issues it. Money's value, however, is historically tied to the value of the commodity from which money was derived.

A Thunderously Bad Deal: Oklahoma City’s Crony Arena Tax

08/04/2025 Mises Wire Landen Terrell

Oklahoma City will be building a new arena for the 2025 NBA Champions Thunder. Not surprisingly, the taxpayers will be the ones carrying most of the financial burden.

Russiagate and Hoppe’s Prophecy: When Democracy Reveals Its Parasitic Nature

08/04/2025 Power & Market Michele Ferretti

The collapse of the Russiagate narrative thus serves as more than just a political scandal—it stands as a monument to the prophetic insights of Hoppian political theory.

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Misesians on 9/11, Then and Now

09/11/2014 Mises Wire Mises.org

Libertarians were virtually alone in opposing the planned expansions of government power in the wake of 9/11, and then as now, we saw the attacks for what they were: criminal attacks on human persons...

Chris Matthews: Wages

06/14/2014 Mises Wire Mises.org

David Brat, the economist at Randolph -Macon college who defeated Eric Cantor in that GOP primary in Virginia, said recently that wage increases are only appropriate when a worker’s productivity...

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