Big Government

Here we go again. Now advocates of more government control over the economy want to redefine populism as Trumpism.

As an exciting year comes to a close, we want to thank all of our incredible members that allow us to do the work we do in advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace.

The influence of the Mises Institute is growing, but we still have a long way to go. With an election year looming, our mission of winning hearts and minds becomes increasingly urgent.

Today's BLS employment data release may not be as "solid" as the media are reporting.

The true lessons of Thanksgiving are that private property, the market economy, and personal responsibility lead to prosperity, while government intervention makes us all poorer.

Bernie Sanders and other advocates for more taxes like to note that income tax rates hit 90 percent in the 1950s. What they leave out is that few ever paid such rates and total tax revenues were about the same then as today.

The Paris attacks forced the world's attention away from causes such as the plight of "white privilege" on college campuses and back to the consequences of blowback to interventionist foreign policy. Unfortunately, the political response to these atrocities have been predictable.

Much of the immigration we witness today is not a result of market outcomes, but are government-subsidized migrations. Libertarians defending these mass migrations as if they were market phenomena are only helping to discredit and undermine the true free market.

This week, the dangers of the authoritarian PC culture was driven to the forefront of the national conversation by students at Mizzou. Fortunately, Mises Scholars launched a pre-emptive strike against PC and the degenerating university system at last weekend's Mises Circle in Phoenix. 

What is the best way to fight the leviathan state? Is it through politics, culture, or secession? There are benefits to each approach, but the way to success lies with decentralization and in building a strong society as an alternative to the state.