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The Tuskegee Experiment at 45: Have Public-Health Programs Been Vindicated?

HealthU.S. History

Blog11/16/2017Dale Steinreich

Public health officials have a long history of ignoring basic human rights.

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The Fed's Bubblenomics

The Fed

Blog11/15/2017Murray Sabrin

The Federal Reserve cannot achieve its goals. If it could, the US economy would not have had financial bubbles in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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The Fed Is Confused about What Drives Inflation

Blog10/16/2017Frank Shostak

It is not the symptoms of a disease but rather the disease itself that causes the physical damage. The same is true of inflation.

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Tax Cuts Without Spending Cuts Won't Grow the Economy

Blog10/11/2017Frank Shostak

The presence of central banks allows governments to cut tax rates without actually cutting effective taxation.

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The Conquest of the United States by Spain

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyOther Schools of Thought

10/06/2017Mises Daily ArticlesWilliam Graham Sumner

A modern economist stands aghast at the economic measures adopted by Spain … inspired by some demon of folly, they were so destructive to her prosperity.

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The World Needs an Austrian-School Approach to Economic History

Blog10/06/2017Matteo Salonia

Economic historians should reconcile with economics as a science that is key to the analysis, categorization, and explanation of past phenomena.

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The Agony of the Welfare State, Finnish Style

SocialismTaxes and Spending

Blog09/22/2017Joseph T. Salerno

Wanted: more babies to feed the welfare state.

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The World Is Creeping Toward De-Dollarization

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

Blog09/18/2017Ronald-Peter Stöferle

The reign of every world reserve currency has to come to an end at some point in time.

My Path to the Austrian School of Economics

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

There is no more stopping the Mises School. And when the truth finally wins out, because only what is true can also work smoothly in the long run, then the hour of the Austrian School of Economics will have come.

How California's Government Plans to Make Wildfires Even Worse

Ryan McMaken

The State of California is now forcing insurance companies to cover homeowners who put their houses in some of the most fire-prone areas. What could go wrong?

We Don't Need Sunday "Blue Laws"

Ryan McMaken

Advocates for "blue laws" want to impose more laws on shopkeepers. These moral crusaders should instead start by setting a good example, and stop watching football games, ordering pizzas, or filling up on gas on Sunday.

The Benefits of Free Trade Are Canceled Out by Domestic Interventionism

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Trade agreements have thus become obsolete tokens of negotiation in larger geopolitical disputes, protectionist tools for managing and interfering with global trade flows.

How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession

Ryan McMaken

So long as we insist the federal government can force one law, one culture, and one sort of politics on all of America, the US is headed down the road of civil war. Only decentralization and separation can partly defuse the situation.