Mises Institute

It’s not about fighting over what little there is, but about serving and cooperating voluntarily to create abundance, which is what characterizes the free market.

All too often, judges allow sentiment to override the Constitution. While they might refer to a “living Constitution,” what they really mean is that they don’t permit the law to get in the way of their worldviews.

Javier Milei, whatever one thinks of his time in office, is surely the only national leader in the world who claims Murray Rothbard has inspired many of his actions to stem the economic and social decline in Argentina.

Nearly one in five US tax dollars now go to paying interest on the federal debt. Debt and spending are set to surge even more as war costs mount and interest rates rise.

As the Marxians do not admit that differences of opinion can be settled by discussion and persuasion or decided by majority vote, no solution is open but civil war.

John Williamson, who passed away five years ago, is known for creating what was called the “Washington Consensus,” which was an attempt to bring a liberal economic order to poor countries looking to transition from socialism to capitalism.

When inflation heats up because central banks hold interest rates to artificially low levels, the standard approach is for central banks to increase interest rates. The better policy is not to artificially manipulate interest rates at all.

President Trump’s current war with Iran not only is creating economic havoc around the world, but it is also bleeding US taxpayers. There are no good outcomes here.

Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty is a classic at bringing together the foundations of Austrian Economics and libertarian thinking.

Murray Rothbard based much of his work on property rights, and in this piece, Ludovico Lumicisi applies Rothbardian thinking to the technology of our digital age.