Mises Wire

For decades, the most powerful institutions, from academia to the corporate press, have made a concerted effort to marginalize the wisdom of Austrian economics. Their control is breaking.

The abolition of chattel slavery was a great advancement for human liberty. But many of those celebrating Juneteenth today still accept the core assumptions that underlie slavery.

Today these reasons or very similar ones are used by opponents of a different form of abolitionism: the proposal that government as we know it — monopolistic, individually nonconsensual rule by an armed group that demands obedience and payment of taxes — be abolished.

The concept of human rights has been corrupted by socialists and welfarists. That is why we need to look to thinkers like Murray Rothbard and others who laid out theories based upon natural rights and property rights.

With the world moving more and more in the direction of trade protectionism and war, it is worth remembering the origin of the fallacies upon which this movement is based.

In its attempt to claim that the concept of free trade is full of fallacies, The American Compass builds its anti-free trade case upon fallacies.

Murray Rothbard noted that the culture wars are not the result of conservative intransigence but rather of progressive elites’ insistence on forcing new cultural rules on people who don’t want to be coerced.

While neoconservativism as we know it has US origins, one of its versions is alive and well south of our border. Unfortunately, neoconservatism has made inroads in Latin America.

Commercial real estate in the USA is facing a major crisis which could not have been possible without the enabling of the Fed and the draconian restrictions imposed during covid. As commercial real estate prices collapse, the usual suspects call for even more bailouts.

Saudi Arabia considers de-dollarization as closer relations with Russia, Iran, and China create new incentives to break with old alliances and deals with Washington.