1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (959+ words) The 16th of November may be considered as the Fourth of July in the economic life of the United States. Coming generations will commemorate it as marking the foundation of our financial emancipation. — Paul M. Warburg, architect of the Federal Reserve…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (186+ words) To continue our celebration of the Year of Rothbard, the Mises Institute is giving away a different Rothbard book each month through December 31. This month’s book is Rothbard’s The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar. Get your FREE copy today!...

2+ day, 45+ min ago   (441+ words) Mark Thornton opens this triple-header episode with a live Radio Rothbard appearance from Mises University, joining Ryan McMaken to discuss inflation, the K-shaped economy, asset prices, debt, the dollar, and why Austrian theory explains what mainstream accounts leave out. Thornton…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1020+ words) Each person has a different makeup, a different history, different information, and different understandings. In short, each person lives a different life than other people live and, as a result, knows many things that other people don’t know. Each person…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (349+ words) By Austrians, he means me and, in particular, this recent column for The Daily Economy on how economic statistical measures take on new meaning when they are adopted in policymaking. Certainly, players in the finance sector make loads of money…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (730+ words) Every now and then, we still receive emails asking why there is no comment section on each mises.org page, and some even demand that we, the staff at the Mises...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (180+ words) The first fight, for the rule of law, is relatively straight-forward and easily understood. Even if a crime can sometimes be complex to grasp for the layman (for instance, financial crimes), the nature and wrongness of the crime—whether it…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (547+ words) “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” — Thomas Sowell Instead of retreading previous ground, this…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (344+ words) Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that private property is the indispensable cornerstone of liberty and civilization, and that anti-discrimination laws—however well-intentioned—are a form of aggression against property that nudges society along the continuum toward socialism. Drawing on Rothbard, Hoppe,…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (173+ words) Long ago, great Senators existed. Resolute and accountable, they represented their governors and state legislatures and asserted those interests in Washington....