Mises Wire

Fed bugs sound like real estate agents in reverse: there is never a good time to buy gold.

It is quite certain that dissatisfaction with the old Articles was not general, for when the new order was implemented in 1789, it was effected with great difficulty and only through methods both unscrupulous and dishonourable.

Kodak's newly announced $765 million loan is just another case of DC picking winners and losers.

The “cure” to the current crisis that is forced upon all Europeans now is not just worse than the disease; it is the disease.

 The value of a paper dollar originates from its historical link to commodity money—which happens to be gold—and not government decree or social convention.

The political theorist Douglas W. Rae argues that to get the advantages of Hayekian freedom, everybody should be guaranteed a minimum amount of resources so that they can fully participate in the market.

"If [the draft bill] is passed, the House will be shoving down the throats of the American people the despotic concept of 'Theirs not to reason why; Theirs but to do and die.'"

Today's anticapitalists fall into a familiar pattern pioneered by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile.

Debt and recession in the United States are big problems. But in both cases, metrics show a better situation in the US than in the eurozone.

A just scheme for reparations requires us to identify specific victims. But current calls for reparations do no such thing. Also, the British economy was not built on slavery, as some now claim.