Mises Wire

Should we audit the US gold hoard? First, let's take a look at what the official numbers say about how big the US gold reserve is, where it is located, and how much it is worth in US dollars.

Bob argues that the only way to cripple Mexican drug cartels is through US drug legalization.

While Marxist progressives claim that “class conflict” is the source of social ills, the true conflict involves the tax-consuming caste using state power to plunder the productive tax-paying caste.

Ryan McMaken and Chris Calton examine the many ways that government intervention has driven up home prices and made affordable homes harder to find. 

It seems that the EU leaders have decided on a new military spending spree. To pay for this, the EU will issue new war debt on top of its current high debt loads.

“Liberal” remains the only truly accurate and consistent term for the ideology of freedom and free markets. Without it, we can't write a coherent historical narrative. 

While the Biden administration's attempts to forgive billions of dollars of student loans ran into legal problems, there is even a better, more libertarian, way to deal with this issue. A widespread default is a libertarian option that reflects Rothbard‘s own worldview.

The Atlantic recently published an article claiming that modern “food deserts” exist because the government fails to enforce a New Deal law meant to force up prices and stifle competition. Once again, we see how progressives push their economic illiteracy on everyone else.

The implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies isn‘t just about money. It also is about personal freedom and how CBDCs give the government enormous powers over individuals.

For the first time since the war began, a senior US official criticized Ukraine’s use of conscripts. This is overdue, as conscription is one of the worst tyrannies a government can impose on the people under it, and Americans have now been forced to support it for years.