Power & Market

The real reason we pay taxes: to keep the ruling parasite class living in relative opulence while private sector workers toil to produce all the real wealth.

With each new “crisis” — often directly or indirectly caused by the state itself — government grows and our freedom shrinks.

As we start a new year, it is a good time to take a step back and remember what the past year has taught us.

Thorsten Polleit (TP): On November 5, 2024, Donald J. Trump was elected the new US president with a landslide victory.

Mises Institute president Tom DiLorenzo joined the Tom Woods Show to discuss The Axis of Evil: the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

The Polish Mises Institute released, on its YouTube channel, a new documentary about Carl Menger.

In a previous post titled, “Why Doe

After the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021, it seemed that everyone learned a word they had never used before—“insurrection.” Yet, if that event was an insurrection, it was a very poor one. Typically, coup attempts do not wrap up in time for dinner.

President-Elect Trump recently suggested privatizing the US Post Office (USPS). Why?

The Grinch showed up this year at the nation’s deposit insurer suspending bonuses for senior officials at the FDIC. Bank Regulators have been behaving like frat boys for at least the last couple years according to an internal investigation.