Mises Wire

The current war is a timely reminder that the US ruling elites regard the US taxpayers and ordinary Americans as little more than inconvenient afterthoughts in US foreign policy.

Politicians in the US and elsewhere appeal to envy as they demand destructive wealth taxes to be levied on billionaire business owners. 

"Murray N. Rothbard is a scholar of unique, indeed monumental achievements: the founder of the first fully-integrated science of liberty."

Modern historians are all about protecting their politically-correct narratives at all costs, and especially the cost of historical truths.

While Aristotle did not have advanced knowledge of economics, his causal-based view of reality set the stage for the development of the Austrian School.

“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.”

The yield curve is not easily understood, but it is important in giving us a good look at what is happening in the economy. Not surprisingly, Austrian economists are way ahead of the others in explaining the how and why of the curve.

Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday. Help us celebrate!

The Trump administration is trying to develop programs to domestically produce “critical” minerals that might be unavailable during trade disruptions. Of course, it is turning into yet another central planning fiasco.

Progressive historians have been able to define the terms of debates of historical events as well to ask the biased and loaded questions in the name of historical inquiry. That is no way to find the truth.