Mises Wire

Burning Down Rothbard

HayekLibertarianism

Blog10/28/2022

While Andrew Koppelman has made a good faith effort to understand and portray libertarianism, he makes some serious errors regarding Rothbardian thought. David Gordon helps to set him straight.

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Ben Bernanke's Nobel Prize: The Committee Rewards an Arsonist for Claiming to Fight the Fire He Started

Booms and BustsMonetary TheoryMoney and Banking

Blog10/10/2022

Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and two other economists have received the Nobel in economics this year. Their work on banking is weak on causality and fails to recognize the damage done by the central bank.

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Biggar Thy Neighbor

PaternalismWar and Foreign Policy

Blog09/30/2022

Is there a case for an American empire? Professor Nigel Biggar of Oxford University believes so, but David Gordon sets him straight.

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By Compensating Slave Owners, Great Britain Negotiated a Peaceful End to Slavery

DemocracyProperty RightsWorld History

Blog09/08/2022

By compensating slave owners for the abolition of slavery, Great Britain ended the scourge of chattel slavery long before it was ended in the Americas.

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Booms, Busts, and Statistics: What the Mainstream Gets Wrong

Austrian Economics Overview

"Economics is about how we behave, which comes from our personal valuation, in and relative to the physical world."

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Blame the Fed for Both the Inflationary Boom and the Inevitable Bust

Money and Banks

Blog09/01/2022

Powell isn't a villain for pulling his foot off the money-creation accelerator a little. No, Powell's villainy stems from his role in helping create the boom in the first place.

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Biden's Student Loan Scheme Benefits the Ruling Class (Again)

Big GovernmentEconomic PolicyTaxes and Spending

Blog08/29/2022

With a declaration of a fake crisis and twisting an obscure law, President Joe Biden has invoked a massive wealth transfer that benefits the most privileged people in our society.

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