Mises Wire

Charles Rist was an economist of nearly a century ago who recognized the dangers behind President Franklin Roosevelt‘s attempts to demonetize gold. We are still paying the price for FDR‘s actions.

The latest example of our bullying and tyrannical federal judiciary is Chief Justice John Roberts’ rebuke of President Trump’s recommendation of impeaching a federal judge.

While the Trump administration claims it is breaking with the policies of Joe Biden, it is continuing US attacks on the Houthis of Yemen supported by the previous president.

Federal education officials claim to be “enforcing” racial equality in American classrooms, but the reality is that the government often is the source of racial bigotry in the schools.

This article delves into the real cost of war as explained by Joseph Salerno in his book Money: Sound and Unsound. Contrary to Keynesianism, war destroys wealth and destroys an economy from within.

While attempts to eliminate USAID are garnering a lot of publicity, the truth is that the foreign aid budget needs even more cutting than the Trump administration is willing to do.

From the Middle Ages to Rousseau to the Industrial Revolution to Trotsky, historian Ralph Raico provides a refreshing free-market analysis of political thought.

Kennedy had become deeply suspicious of the CIA and other American intelligence agencies. They had given him bad advice about Cuba, which almost got us into a nuclear confrontation with Soviet Russia.

Six hundred years before Carl Menger wrote his Principles, Thomas Aquinas was writing about the role of subjective valuation in economic exchanges. His work helped lay the groundwork for further advances in economic theory.

There‘s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities becoming R1 research institutions, the competition for dwindling federal dollars will change the higher education landscape.