Mises Wire

Jeff Deist

Fed bugs sound like real estate agents in reverse: there is never a good time to buy gold.

Andrew Moran

Kodak's newly announced $765 million loan is just another case of DC picking winners and losers.

Claudio Grass

The “cure” to the current crisis that is forced upon all Europeans now is not just worse than the disease; it is the disease.

Albert Jay Nock

It is quite certain that dissatisfaction with the old Articles was not general, for when the new order was implemented in 1789, it was effected with great difficulty and only through methods both unscrupulous and dishonourable.

Howard Buffett Trevor Daher

"If [the draft bill] is passed, the House will be shoving down the throats of the American people the despotic concept of 'Theirs not to reason why; Theirs but to do and die.'"

Frank Shostak

 The value of a paper dollar originates from its historical link to commodity money—which happens to be gold—and not government decree or social convention.

David Gordon

The political theorist Douglas W. Rae argues that to get the advantages of Hayekian freedom, everybody should be guaranteed a minimum amount of resources so that they can fully participate in the market.

Fabrizio Ferrari

Today's anticapitalists fall into a familiar pattern pioneered by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile.

Daniel Lacalle

Debt and recession in the United States are big problems. But in both cases, metrics show a better situation in the US than in the eurozone.

Hunter Hastings

To succeed, entrepreneurs must demonstrate superior foresight and judgment, and practice continuous dynamic improvement in their assembly and reassembly of assets to serve the consumer.