Mises Wire

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anarchy is not chaos, and the state does not provide order.

Even though people are leaving California and New York in droves due in large part to their ruinous taxes, the state authorities are tracking these emigrants down and demanding they continue to pay state taxes. Right out of Orwell.

Contrary to the drumbeat from political, media, and academic elites, capitalism improves the lives of ordinary people. Socialism receives favorable publicity but fails wherever it is implemented.

Should calling attention to war crimes be punishable by jail? You don’t have to be a libertarian to recognize that we can’t have a free society under the censorship this Act would impose.