Don’t Slap a New Tax on High-Frequency Trading
High-frequency trading is not the nefarious scheme policymakers would have you believe it is. It serves a real purpose in the marketplace.
Mises Wire
Spain Is without a National Government — And Spaniards Are Digging It
No functioning government in Spain for the last 10 months, and the country is prospering.
Henry Hazlitt’s Dystopia: A Review of Time Will Run Back
Henry Hazlitt brings to his only novel, Time Will Run Back, the same clarity and ease for the reader he brought to Economics in One Lesson.
Why Intellectuals Fall for Socialism
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It has long depended on intellectuals to push the interventionist agenda.
The Trumped-Up Myths Behind “Trickle-Down” Economics
The critique of "trickle-down" economics relies on a mistaken zero-sum view that more income for some must reduce incomes to others.
Hillary’s Huge Estate-Tax Hike
Estate taxes destroy businesses and undermine families while enriching the state. Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton wants more of them.
The Week in Review: October 1, 2016
We take pride in continuing our namesake's legacy of uncompromising support for Austrian economics, freedom, and peace.
“Thar’s Gold in Them Mountains”
It is no secret that secret Swiss bank accounts are not so secret anymore, as political elites worldwide wage an all-out war against financial privacy.
What Makes Mises.org Different
Many people regard economics as a difficult and tedious business. Mises.org shows it does not have to be that way.
Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
It's the Fed's creation of money that enables all of this fraudulent behavior in the first place, so why should the Fed remain untouchable?
