US farms and ranches face rising debt in 2026. New York based Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) released an article on February 25, 2026, entitled, “Farm Debt on the Rise as Federal Aid Counters Rising Expenses” The article described this federal government intervention from the Austrian economics viewpoint encouraged rising farm debt from federal aid.

The 16th of November may be considered as the Fourth of July in the economic life of the United States. Coming generations will commemorate it as marking the foundation of our financial emancipation. — Paul M. Warburg, architect of the Federal Reserve System, November 17, 1914

To continue our celebration of the Year of Rothbard, the Mises Institute is giving away a different Rothbard book each month through December 31. This month’s book is Rothbard’s The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar.

Each person has a different makeup, a different history, different information, and different understandings. In short, each person lives a different life than other people live and, as a result, knows many things that other people don’t know. Each person sees and decides differently than other people see and decide.

In a recent column for Seeking Alpha, investor-turned-analyst Lance Roberts defends Milton Friedman’s view of inflation against what he calls inflation “doomers” and Austrians. By the former, he means those who approvingly lean on the Friedman quote that, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. . .” but fail to include the tail end of the quote: that “. .

Every now and then, we still receive emails asking why there is no comment section on each mises.org page, and some even demand that we, the staff at the Mises Institute, create a comment section. In theory, I like the idea of a comment section, as it would be nice to see supporters make suggestion and add their own observations in a forum that is friendly to our readers. Unfortunately, when it comes down to actually moderating and managing a comment section, the negatives pile up much more quickly than the positives.

The locals still have some control over their own borders, unlike in the USA where the central government dictates border policy for all. 

The expression “fight for your rights” is usually associated with socialism.

[Cronyism: Rise of the Corporate State 1849-1929 by Patrick Newman (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2026; 412 pp.)]