Mises Wire

David Gordon

This week in Friday Philosophy, David Gordon reviews The Tariff Superstition: Why Protectionism Always Fails and Who Really Pays the Price by Marcel Kedosa, who levies devastating arguments against protective tariffs, sometimes using the same arguments used by Murray Rothbard.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The end result will be an even more legalized theft as American producers that use imported parts for their own manufactured products are plundered by tariffs.

Joshua Mawhorter

Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal. From railroad subsidies to a national banking system, Lincoln paved the way to the Progressive Era and beyond.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Beyond his scholarly work, Murray was a dedicated teacher and mentor. His enthusiasm for engaging with young minds and his willingness to challenge mainstream academia set him apart as an intellectual leader.

Joshua Mawhorter

Five years later, the rebranding of the covid pandemic is already happening and, unfortunately, showing some success. This is similar to how the New Deal was rebranded as a resounding success when it was a measurable failure.

George Ford Smith

As Elon Musk and his crew scour the federal government to see what needs to be culled from the herd, there is an obvious agency that cries out for elimination: the Federal Reserve System.

William L. Anderson

President Trump has promised “billions and billions” of dollars in new revenue from his tariffs not to mention economic rejuvenation. The odds are not in his favor, to put it mildly.

David Brady, Jr.

Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.