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Dr. Huagio's translation is an invaluable contribution to the growing library of works about the Austrian school in China.

Jon Grinspan's new book The Virgin Vote reminds us that democracy has no golden age of civil and well-reasoned electioneering.

The government wants to arrogate to itself the power, which, in an economy, is in the hands of the consumers.

Many of the threats to liberty posed by this year's presidential candidates are due to the long history of supporting expanded presidential power.

For Mises "human society is thus spiritual and teleological," the "product of thought and will."

Mainstream economics is fraying at both ends. It is vague, and lacks precision. Austrian economics, meanwhile, is rooted in concrete human action.

John Stuart Mill and Ludwig von Mises realized that democracy can only work if the voters pay more into the system than they take out of it.

If Brazil truly is "the country of the future," it will be due to it embracing the ideas of Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard.

The cronyism on display at the Brazil Olympics seems almost harmless compared to the chaos in far-more-socialist Venezuela. 

The key to economic growth is not optimism or good "animal spirits." They key is increased productivity and wealth accumulation.

Police departments are upset that new freedom-expanding laws are making their jobs less lucrative. 

Maybe the best thing we can do then is to let ourselves be guided by Bastiat's saying: "The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended."

The Federal government likes to play both sides of the environmentalism debate in order to increase its own power.

"Coffee and milk became luxuries years ago, but the scary scarcity — of things like bread — have hit my middle-class home."

The view seems to be that if a higher minimum wage is mandated that employers will continue to make all of the same hiring decisions. Not true.

Rothbard saw the State as a gang of robbers. It by no means followed from this, though, that he was uninterested in politics.