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While I was fact checking today’s Mises Daily

Neurosurgeon-turned-Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been under attack this week by our

Remember, if you prefer to read articles in Spanish, the good people at Mises Hispano continue to translate many Mises&nbsp

How should we define equality? The state won't define it, and a definition doesn't really matter because "equality" isn't really about helping anyone but the state and its agents. It's about some people exercising power over other people.

To support free markets is to invite criticism on virtually every policy issue.

Mises Daily Thursday: Adapted from his Dallas-Ft.

Mises Daily Wednesday: Ferghane

The Trans Pacific Partnership is just the latest assault on free trade, although, like previous assaults before it, such as the North American Free

Everywhere we look, governments are trying to enhance and extend their own power. So why are so many of those same governments eager to sign on to "free trade" agreements. It's because such agreements have nothing to do with free trade.

A real free trade agreement should be short and unilateral. It would then truly allow the market to bring about a pattern of international trade in line with the scarcity of resources and with entrepreneurial judgment about their most efficient international allocation. The TPP, on the other hand, was created to interfere with this pattern: to distort it for more political power or for more economic gain for some groups or others. It was created to take trade flows from the course prescribed by voluntary agreements and divert them into that prescribed by political agreements.