Trump's allies have used this new war to present him as a courageous president, willing to endure short-term hardship to make the world safer. In truth, he’s just embraced the wealth-draining, conflict-amplifying warfare state that’s holding our country hostage.
The question of who owns the Middle East is ongoing and will never be resolved, not in the current political climate.
A Rothbardian view of vaccines and society is that no government should have the power to coerce someone into having a vaccine. Their safety is irrelevant for this argument, although we definitely should have an interest in their safety for people.
Help us keep alive Murray Rothbard’s legacy! In honor of Rothbard and all that he did to revitalize Austrian economics and the cause of liberty, the Mises Institute is proud to launch the Year of Rothbard to celebrate his 100th birthday.
Rothbard’s views on nations by consent are once again in the limelight. Libertarians who ignore the nationality question and continue merrily defending free trade, free movement of workers, and open borders, oblivious to the concerns of increasing numbers of people, are unwise.
Although Federal Reserve policies are claimed to try to target the neutral rate of interest, it is not possible for that to be accomplished through monetary central planning.
For more than a century, economists have tried to reduce economics to a series of mathematical equations and statistical analysis. They have failed miserably, but that doesn’t stop them from continuing down the same mistaken path.
While elites tell us we need to fear artificial intelligence, they continue to approve of the Federal Reserve’s attempts to expand artificial credit, which is the real threat to our economic well-being.
"Let us therefore try to investigate what would happen if political servitude were to be abolished, if 'freedom of government' were to be established as a logical and necessary complement to freedom of industry."
Roger W. Garrison, a leading Austrian macroeconomist, has passed away.
