Mises Wire

The Fair Tax is a supposed alternative to the income tax. But the name does not matter, since a tax is still a tax.

Not only must the war against progressivism be fought with a religious fervor, but it must also be, in Rothbard’s words, “openly and gloriously reactionary.”

Inflation is at a forty-year high, fuel prices are wreaking havoc, and there's no end in sight. Time for Biden to tell us how good we have it.

Skyrocketing asset prices are great for hedge fund managers and Wall Street types, but they increasingly drive ordinary people into unsustainably large amounts of debt.

Since the state is incorrigible and incapable of being reformed, perhaps the best way to deal with government predations is to boycott the elections.

Between Western sanctions and its own statist economic intervention, the Russian economy is headed downward and there is not much optimism ahead.

Many of the conventional strategies favored by freedom activists often fail to produce results. Lew Rockwell suggests some alternative strategies.

Instead of “respecting the Fed’s independence,” President Biden should work with Congress to audit, then end the Fed.

Florida's anticensorship law is being boosted as a defense of free speech. In reality, it turns the First Amendment upside down.

In seeking membership in NATO, Finland and Sweden seem to believe they will have more military security. But they also are giving up their precious independence.