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Assisted Suicide Is the Logical Outcome of Government-Controlled Medical Care
War and Trade Restrictions: Fallacious Paths to National Security and Prosperity
Tax Freedom Day Underestimates How Long You Work for the Government
Taxation Is Robbery
Artificial Liquidity Brings Inflation Shocks
Precious Metals Work
The Danger of Allowing Good Intentions to Override the Constitution
Ex Nihilo No More
In Memory of the Creator of the Washington Consensus
Marxism vs. the Majority
Germany Restricts Emigration to Prevent Young Men From Escaping the Military Draft
Why I Side with Ludwig von Mises
State Wars Bleed a Nation to Death
A Note on “Currency” in Colonial America
Turns Out the Elites Like the Administrative State Better than Democracy
Rothbard, the Mises Institute, and the Battle of Ideas
Is Donald Trump Another Bismarck?
Money Laundering and Oliver Bullough’s New Pearl-Clutching Book
The Irresistible Promise of John Law
When Corporations Resist the State: Ethics, AI, and the Limits of Government Power
The Myth that Won't Die: "War is Good for the Economy"
One of the legacies of Keynesian thought is the belief that war is “good for the economy.” While war may help enable employment, nonetheless, its overall legacy is destructive, and even the jobs war “creates” are economically undesirable.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-wont-die-war-good-economy
The Ideological Impregnation of Thought
However one may turn the matter, one cannot discover any reason why an ideological distortion of truth should be more useful to the bourgeoisie than a correct theory.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/ideological-impregnation-thought
Barter, Media of Exchange, and Colonial America
Despite the claims of the chartalists and modern monetary theory advocates, early American monetary history tells a much different story. In fact, much of the historical evidence illustrates Menger’s theory.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/barter-media-exchange-and-colonial-america
Corruption in the System
Government corruption isn’t an anomaly. It is part of the system itself. We should expect government to be corrupt. Free markets are the antidote to this corruption.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/corruption-system
Why the US Regime Pretends Israel's Nuclear Weapons Don't Exist
The existence of the arsenal makes the State of Israel ineligible for US aid under US law. This is a problem for US supporters of military and economic aid to the State of Israel. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-us-regime-pretends-israels-nuclear-weapons-dont-exist
The True Founders of Economics: The School of Salamanca
The real founders of economic science actually wrote hundreds of years before Adam Smith. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/true-founders-economics-school-salamanca
The Duke Faculty and Administration Damaged the Intellectual Foundations of Higher Education
By opposing justice and throwing aside the facts of hard science, the Duke faculty and administration damaged all of higher education during the infamous lacrosse hoax.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/duke-faculty-and-administration-damaged-intellectual-foundations-higher-education
There Is No Property-Rights Case for Birthright Citizenship
The process of naturalization is a government-created "right" with no basis in property rights. In other words, there is no libertarian case for birthright citizenship. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-property-rights-case-birthright-citizenship
Ethics, State, and Just War: Some Notes on Rothbard’s Libertarianism
For Rothbard — as for Locke — it is not the use of force that is disputable, but the use of force against peaceful and innocent people.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ethics-state-and-just-war-some-notes-rothbards-libertarianism
How the Jacksonians Caused America’s Industrial Revolution
America’s industrial revolution didn’t just happen. It came about because of the free market initiatives that came from the Andrew Jackson presidency.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-jacksonians-caused-americas-industrial-revolution
Atlanta, TSA, and a Test Case for Interventionist Non-Intervention
The TSA stories, especially at Atlanta, are illustrations of interventionist non-intervention: non-delivery of promised, paid-for, and monopolized service.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/atlanta-tsa-and-test-case-interventionist-non-intervention
Durham Police and Prosecutors Committed Numerous Crimes in the Duke Lacrosse Case – And Escaped Meaningful Punishment
When accusations of rape and assault were made against Duke University’s lacrosse team in 2006, both the Durham City Police and District Attorney Michael Nifong engaged in law breaking to indict three young men that clearly were innocent.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/durham-police-and-prosecutors-committed-numerous-crimes-duke-lacrosse-case-and-escaped-meaningful-punishment
Cheap Calories, Expensive Consequences: How Federal Policy Contributes to Chronic Disease
The federal government heavily subsidizes certain politically-connected food growers in the name of “protecting our food supply.” Actually, the government protects the livelihood of those that promote unhealthy foods.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/cheap-calories-expensive-consequences-how-federal-policy-contributes-chronic-disease
The Mistaken Identity of Prediction Markets
Mainstream finance regularly confuses finance, insurance and betting. The Austrian School provides the tools to understand their differences.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mistaken-identity-prediction-markets
Individualism in Rothbard’s Natural Rights Libertarianism
Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/individualism-rothbards-natural-rights-libertarianism
The Iran War Brings More Inflation and New Strength to the Yuan
Beyond the initial oil shock, the Iran war is also laying the foundation for ongoing monetary inflation and price inflation, with no real change to the US regime’s commitment to easy money.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/iran-war-brings-more-inflation-and-new-strength-yuan
It’s Not Anarcho-Tyranny, It’s Interventionist Non-Intervention
Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is incentivized to engage in paid non-delivery.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/its-not-anarcho-tyranny-its-interventionist-non-intervention
Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)
Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/remembering-paul-ehrlich-even-if-we-would-rather-not
Roger Garrison and the Sustainable Growth of the Austrian School
Generations of scholars come and go; a few, including Roger Garrison, make their mark on the field and inspire future generations to do the same.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/roger-garrison-and-sustainable-growth-austrian-school
Rothbard Never Abandoned His Principles
As we continue to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, Wanjiru Njoya reminds us that he never compromised his principles and stood for liberty throughout his all-too-brief life.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-never-abandoned-his-principles
Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain
Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe interest but do not explain it. Only the Austrian theory of time preference correctly explains interest.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/popular-interest-rate-theory-describes-fails-explain
Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History
Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/cultural-marxism-masquerading-true-history
Is Another Stone Age in the Making?
As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/another-stone-age-making
Only Power Can Check Power
The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/only-power-can-check-power
The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy
The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is a small sampling of the lies they told.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/duke-lacrosse-case-20-years-later-how-durham-law-enforcement-promoted-criminal-conspiracy
Rothbard and the American Revolution
As we celebrate the Centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, we look at his commentary on the American Revolution, where it promoted liberty and where the creation of the Constitution became liberty’s roadblock.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-and-american-revolution
Operation Ajax (1953): The CIA’s Template—and Warnings for Today
The current US conflict with Iran has its roots in the CIA-backed coup in 1953, which removed a democratically-elected prime minister and replaced him with the Shah. The Shah’s government ultimately collapsed, leading to the current Islamic republic.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/operation-ajax-1953-cias-template-and-warnings-today
The Duke Lacrosse Case Exposed the Rot in Higher Education, the Media, and the Justice System
It has been 20 years since the Duke Lacrosse Case dominated the news media. It was a story in which false narratives of guilt pushed by corrupt police and prosecutors, radical members of Duke’s faculty, and the legacy media nearly railroaded three innocent men into prison.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/duke-lacrosse-case-exposed-rot-higher-education-media-and-justice-system
Rothbard and War
Those who believe in the free and unhampered market economy should be especially skeptical of war and military action. War, after all, is the ultimate government program.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-and-war
The Iran War Exposes the Farce of American "Representative Democracy"
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.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/iran-war-exposes-farce-american-representative-democracy