Forbes: The Fed has destroyed the dollar

01/02/2026 Notes in the Margin

“A dollar saved in 1913 retains roughly $0.03 of its original purchasing power. The M2 money supply has expanded from approximately $15 billion to over $21 trillion...”

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American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction

01/02/2026 Mises Wire Larsen Plyler

Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.

Assessing Libertarian Foreign Policy: Rothbard vs. Friedman

01/02/2026 Friday Philosophy David Gordon

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freeman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.”

The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View

01/01/2026 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves.

The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory

01/01/2026 Mises Wire Lipton Matthews

Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.

In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests

12/31/2025 Mises Wire William L. Anderson

A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.

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