Mainstream economists turned climate warriors use cost-of-production methods to determine the “true” social cost of carbon. They appeal to a discredited methodology falsely attributed to medieval Scholastics.
Sen. Joe Manchin says he is retiring because of legislative divisions that keep Congress from finding political “solutions” to the nation’s problems. In truth, Congress is more united than the people they supposedly represent.
Progressives claim that perhaps individual freedom might be appropriate for a simpler society but that as society grows more complex, the need for government grows. As Leonard Read pointed out, however, greater complexity requires greater freedom, not less.
In the past two decades, the TSA has proven it is ineffective in providing real security for airline passengers. However, its growing incompetence is matched only by its increasing intrusion into travelers' lives.
According to a Brown University professor, ExxonMobil threatens our democratic republic by purchasing another company. The totalitarian woke atmosphere in American higher education is the real threat.
While the Fed tries to engineer the mythical “soft landing” for the economy, Austrian economists know that this is an exercise in futility. Once the credit-fueled boom occurs, the bust logically follows.
Advocates of unbacked paper money claim that theirs is the “civilized” choice, as opposed to gold, or what Keynes called “that barbarous relic.” These inflationists, however, are the ones wrecking civilization as we have known it.
Ten years ago, I discovered the Mises Institute. This is the advice I wish I could send back to my younger self.
California governor Gavin Newsome has signed a draconian new bill meant to raise pay for the state's fast-food workers.
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Fort Myers, Florida, 4 November 2023.
