Hunger and War in WWI Germany: Remembering the Slaughter of Pigs
Strange centennial somehow makes sense in the world of Leviathan.
Mises Wire
The Week in Review: November 28, 2015
The true lessons of Thanksgiving are that private property, the market economy, and personal responsibility lead to prosperity, while government intervention makes us all poorer.
Economics Is About Scarcity, Property, and Relationships
Everything in human life is organized around how we make decisions about three things: scarcity, property, and relationships.
Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise
The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.
Eliminating Cash Makes it Easier to Silence Critics
As William Grigg recently reported, federal regulators have the ability to freeze the bank accounts and credit card accounts of citizens, even without charging them with a crime or providing any other due process.
Ralph Nader Is Right: The Fed’s Stimulus Hurts Ordinary People
Defenders of the Fed have long been at a loss to explain how anyone could ever oppose the Fed and its “stimulus” programs.
With Mass Shootings, the State Makes Us Less Safe
President Obama has claimed that mass shootings do not occur in other countries. But, the data is clear that they do happen other places, and in places with stringent gun control laws. Worldwide, the state fails to keep its citizens safe.
Austrian Student Scholars Conference
Grove City College will host the twelfth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 26-27, 2016.
Rothbard on North
Murray Rothbard reviewed an early work by Douglass North, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860.
The Good Ol’ Days: When Tax Rates Were 90 Percent
Bernie Sanders and other advocates for more taxes like to note that income tax rates hit 90 percent in the 1950s. What they leave out is that few ever paid such rates and total tax revenues were about the same then as today.
