Mises Wire

There are two ways in which people in a community can coexist. One is by peaceful cooperation, and the other is by taking what others have produced.

Despite its many logical flaws, Marxism remains popular in many academic and political circles. However, Marx‘s Labor Theory of Value still undergirds the entire Marxian structure, and debunking it destroys his entire system.

No matter how much good new anti-woke education policies might do, they fail to deal with the real problem, and that is the existence of “public” education itself.

At this point it's clear it was nothing more than wishful thinking to hope that Trump would be a hard-money guy who would rein in monetary inflation.

President Trump‘s threat to withhold $9 billion from Harvard University is being framed in the legacy media and academia as a threat to Harvard‘s academic freedom. But there is a pertinent question no pundits are even asking: Why are taxpayers being forced to give Harvard $9 billion?

While most of Japan‘s politicians have backed Ukraine in the war with Russia, nonetheless, at least one legislator is willing to see things differently. Suzuki Muneo explains his views in this interview.

Politicians and central bankers assure us that they are diligently “fighting” inflation. Actually, they are fighting inflation the same way that an arsonist fights against the fires he just set. Government is the inflation arsonist.

The non-aggression principle is often ridiculed as being abstract and unrealistic. However, it is possible to function in the real world living by this principle, something Murray Rothbard demonstrated using logic and clear thinking.

While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a different story. Things came to a head April 19, 1775, touching off the American Revolution.

Keynesians claim that through the “multiplier,” a country can spend itself into prosperity. All that is needed is for government to tax, borrow, print money and spend, and prosperity will follow. Austrian Economists, however, are not fooled by such myths.