Mises Wire
The National Security Complex: Contemporary Statism on Steroids
"The empire can and should be dismantled."
Mateusz Machaj on Economists and Inflation
Mises Fellow, Mateusz "Matt" Machaj joins Bob to discuss his new booklet from Routledge, which explains how mainstream economists have responded to the recent bout of price inflation.
No, Corporate Profits Don’t Cause Inflation
Progressives are claiming that corporate profits are one of the causes of inflation. However, if inflation increases consumer prices, it also causes production costs to rise. That is not a recipe for profitability.
Ludwig von Mises on Ethics
While Mises was a utilitarian, he believed people acted to improve their lot because of a felt uneasiness that could be rectified through free markets.
Public Schools Have No Respect for the Students or Their Parents
In many schools around the country, students deal with both physical and emotional aggression each day such that school becomes more about surviving than thriving.
How Westward Expansion Strengthened the Federal Government
The naïve view of American frontier expansion generally leaves out most of the details about how the US's central government—from the early nineteenth century onward—took a very keen interest in how the American frontier was settled, and by whom.
Republican Party: Old and New
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho discuss a recent op-ed from a trio of octogenarian former Republican senators lamenting the state of the GOP.
How Economic Realities Can Curb Activist Politicians
Politicians, bolstered by economic quackery such as modern monetary theory, believe they face no fiscal constraints as they impose their visions upon us. But costs are real things and economic, reality sooner or later sets in.