Mises Wire

The claim is made that drug use is immoral, so must therefore be illegal. Should we outlaw every other immoral activity also?

The EU's ending of the production of €500 bills changes the equation for how the bills will be valued.

New translations of articles from mises.org.

Small boarding houses once provided affordable housing for a large number of working-class Americans. They're mostly illegal now.

From The Quotable Mises, Ludwig von Mises's best nine quotes on gold and the gold standard.

Building a freer society means winning the battle of ideas, not the empty contests put on by the central government every four years.

James Champlin, a 19th-century critic of protectionism, anticipated many of the free-trade insights of the Austrian school.

This talk, delivered by Lew Rockwell at a memorial service for Murray Rothbard, gives a great perspective on Rothbard's life, work, influence, courage, and personality.

In this survey of anti-war movements, David Lorenzo examines the political challenges they repeatedly encounter.

The taxpayers will complain a little, but they'll be sure to re-elect most of the politicians who gave us this status quo.