Much has been written lately, including by me, about the coming rejection of the dollar as the primary reserve currency of the world’s most important central banks.

81 years ago. The federal government may one day take notice.

Most of the US Constitution is anti-libertarian and designed to extract more taxes and centralize political power. Some of the Amendments, however, are quite pro-freedom, including, of course, the first ten amendments, but we should also mention the 21st amendment, which repealed the 18th amendment banning the sale, importation, production, and possession of alcoholic beverages. 

Gary Schlarbaum, one of our generous supporters, has offered to match all donations received through December 9.

That means your $10 donation becomes $20, your $25 donation becomes $50, and so on.

MarketWatch declares today: “It’s official: America is now No. 2”.

We ran four articles on the Swiss gold initiative, beginning with Claudio Grass of Switzerland, who was interviewed on Mises Weekends. Grass was generally positive about the intitiative, if not its prospects for success, here and here. During the second interview, however, Jeff Deist noted several critics who have pointed out numerous point of weakness in the initi

This article is excerpted from chapter 13 of The Ethics of Liberty.1

Few aspects of libertarian political theory are in a less satisfactory state than the theory of punishment.

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In his Financial Times article “The curse of weak global demand,” Martin Wolf writes that today’s most important economic illness is chronic demand deficiency syndrome. Wolf argues that despite massive monetary pumping by the central banks of the US and the EMU, and the policy of lowering interest rates to around zero, both the US and the EMU, economies have continued to struggle.

We first printed this list in 2007:

Bettina-Bien Greaves took careful notes during Ludwig von Mises’s New York seminars. Whenever he made a comment that suggested research paper or book, she jotted it down on a note card. She kept all these note cards and has generously agreed to share them with the public by sending them to us.

The Mises Institute is pleased to make them public for the first time.

Discussing his recent article on Downton Abbey’s Dirty Secret on the Exceptional Conservative Show. 

On the Butler On Business show to discuss football, the economy, and more.