Mises Wire

Norway’s new monarch may prove to be an effective leader, but we are reminded that his hereditary privilege is being financially supported by involuntary taxes.

The criminal regime of Fidel Castro not only stole the property of mathematician Aurelio Baldor, but also falsely claimed to have made the mathematical discoveries that were Baldor’s.

American investments in Venezuela are likely to provide little direct financial benefit to the taxpayers shouldering the cost. They risk empowering a dictatorship that uses its power to repress its citizens and private enterprises.

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J. D. Vance raised a few eyebrows invoking Huey Long as a populist. In other words, the so-called populists really are calling for platforms of wealth destruction and lower living standards for all. Murray Rothbard proposed a populist alternative.

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While he was living, Murray Rothbard saw issues of war and peace as being fundamental to a free society. Nothing has changed since he made that declaration.

Most government-mandated recycling makes no economic sense, but continues anyway. Recycling has given way to recyclingism, a government-sponsored ideology.

Populists have spent the past decade rebelling against a political system they correctly recognize as rigged. But they keep focusing on its surface-level symptoms while ignoring the institution at its center.

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