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Introducing The Free Man's Library

Mises DailyJuly 23, 2009Henry Hazlitt

Socialism is irreconcilable with freedom. This is the lesson that most of our modern philosophers and littérateurs have yet to learn.

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Credit for All

Mises DailyOctober 9, 1998Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Clinton and friends propose a global lending facility as a prelude to endless bailouts.

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All the Buzz

Mises DailyJuly 23, 2007Doug French

The world would be a much safer place if Giuliani and those other eight "bomb Iran" candidates were behind bars, and police stopped harassing Paris Hilton and her girlfriends in Hollywood...

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Vacations for All

Mises DailyMay 13, 2000William L. Anderson

The new campaign to impose vacations as a mandated benefit, promoted by Escape Magazine, rests on economic fallacy.

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A Falling Dollar, After All

Mises DailyAugust 13, 2007Robert P. Murphy

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the dollar could be ready for another beating.

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The Economy Pulls an All-Nighter

Mises DailySeptember 29, 2003Paul F. Cwik

To help explain the complex analytics behind the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, an analogy seems to help. Suppose that, in his 8:00 a.m. class, a student was assigned a paper which is due tomorrow. Of course, he has not yet started working on it. In order to finish the paper on time, he...

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English for All, Freedom for None

Mises DailySeptember 25, 2012Danny Hieber

To ignore the existence of scarcity is to blind oneself with a utopian vision of how the economy of language ought to be arranged.

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Not All News Is Bad

Mises DailyNovember 19, 2008Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The Clinton years are a case in point. Spending rose very little. Warfare was curbed relative to the past and present. Deficits fell. The public sector shrank.

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The Worst of All Monetary Policies

Mises DailyApril 4, 2012Thorsten Polleit

Combining the balance sheets of commercial banks and the Fed provides insight into the expansion of the monetary sector as a whole.

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It all began, as usual, with the Greeks

Mises DailyFebruary 11, 2006Murray N. Rothbard

The first chapter of Murray Rothbard's magisterial History of Economic Thought stretches far back in time...

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Libertarianism, Conservatism, and All That

Mises DailyNovember 16, 2004Jude Blanchette

Mises has long been identified with the political Right and American conservatism, writes Jude Blanchette. Mises, however, regarded himself as a liberal in the classical sense, and even used the world libertarian to describe his views.

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Abandon All Unwinnable Wars

Mises DailyMay 29, 2007Gary Galles

Adding more government intervention in virtually every aspect of our lives because politicians who oppose war call everything else a war, cannot stand up to careful examination.

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All Laws Have Teeth

Mises DailyOctober 12, 2010Jeffrey A. Tucker

It's strange how most people are willing to give the police and the courts the benefit of the doubt and pretend as if the system somehow knows something that we do not know. Anyone hauled off to jail, they believe, probably deserved what is coming to him...

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Winner Used to Take All

Mises DailyMarch 24, 2008Doug French

Binkley believes that as Las Vegas becomes like the rest of the country, the rest of America is becoming at least a little like Las Vegas, with gambling popping up everywhere.

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The Cruelest Tax of All

Mises DailyNovember 26, 2009Sarel Oberholster

"The central bank enters the negotiation between saver and borrower, and by counterfeiting money it destroys the negotiating base of the saver."...

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Five Books That Explain It All

Mises DailyFebruary 6, 2003Jeffrey A. Tucker

In tough times, people cling to the words of politicians and the statements of TV's talking heads—the two sources least likely to offer a broad perspective that yields answers. Jeffrey Tucker recommends five books for a clear a historical perspective, a theoretical explanation, a forecast...

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How Not to Bring Broadband to All

Mises DailyAugust 6, 2009Fernando Herrera-Gonzalez

The only way to guarantee extension of broadband service in an efficient way is to avoid any intervention in the market. Only the free market guarantees that all demand is satisfied, and that the price is the minimum realizable without confiscating wealth from some individuals in favor of others.

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All Colonization Should Be Private

Mises DailyDecember 19, 2006Curran R. Kemp

Both the Law of the Sea and the Antarctic Treaty need to be ignored as relics of the socialist past.

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