Why Social Issues Dominate
by Jeff Deist via Mises.org Inflation in the US is at forty-year highs, while interest rates on ten-year Treasury notes just hit 3 percent—signaling trouble...
NATO: Our International Welfare Queens
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org American policy makers have shown a surprising about of sanity so far in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While...
Why Saudi Arabia Won’t Abandon Dollars for Yuan
by Daniel Lacalle via Mises.org There are numerous articles mentioning that Saudi Arabia may use the yuan, China’s domestic currency, for its oil exports. How...
And if Russia Defaults?
by Robert Aro via Mises.org This Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will address the world to likely announce the raising of interest rates. With...
Why the West Doesn’t Get Russia
by Lipton Matthews via Mises.org The decision of Western countries to punish Russia for invading Ukraine by lacing her with a wave of sanctions suggests...
Sanctions Against Russia Are the Lockdowns of 2022
by Tho Bishop via Mises.org Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nearing its second week. Vladimir Putin’s military continues its push west, with clear attempts to...
Price Inflation Hit a New 40-Year High in February
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org No, It’s Not “Putin’s Fault.” According to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, price inflation in February...
Why Sanctions Don’t Work, and Why They Mostly Hurt Ordinary People
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org The United States and its western European allies have in recent days repeatedly increased economic sanctions against not only the Russian regime,...
Yes, the US Has Its Own “Sphere of Influence.” And It’s Huge.
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org Late last year, US secretary of state Anthony Blinken declared that “One country does not have the right to exert a sphere of...
Canada’s Freezing of Protesters’ Finances Shows How the “War on Cash” Ends
by Robert Fellner via Mises.org The Canadian government is now freezing the bank accounts and personal assets of those who donated to support the Freedom Convoy,...
Russian Weakness and the Russian “Threat” to the West
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of...
In the Age of Covid, We’re Reminded an Unjust Law Is No Law at All
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org It has become something of a habit in both the American and Canadian media to insist that the Canadian trucker...
The Case for Radical Idealism
by Murray N. Rothbard via Mises Institute Every “radical” creed has been subjected to the charge of being “utopian,” and the libertarian movement is no...
Canada Nice No Longer: Trudeau’s Totalitarian Response to Trucker Protests
by Mitch Nemeth via Mises.org On February 14, Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of finance Chrystia Freeland announced a government crackdown on the now infamous “Freedom...
European Government Expansion Did Not Expand the Job Markets
by Daniel Lacalle via Mises.org For the past two years, governments in the European Union have engaged in contradictory actions by both suppressing economic growth...
Socialist Economies Are Impossible: Lessons from Russia, 1917–22
by Bas Spliet via Mises.org A little over one hundred years ago, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises started arguing that a socialist economy is...
The New Anti-Economics
by Jeff Deist via Mises.org Economics is about human action and choice within the context of scarcity. The problem facing economists is how to understand...
Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004
by H.A. Scott Trask via Mises.org As an American historian who knows something of economic law, having learned from the Austrians, I became intrigued with...
The War Party Wants a New Cold War, and the Money that Comes with It
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter...
This Is How the Progressives Will Write the History of Covid
by Robert Zumwalt via Mises.org It seems obvious that wherever vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns have been imposed in response to covid-19, progressive political and...
Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game
Lee esto en Español by Michael Rectenwald via Mises.org In 2018, Ross Douthat of the New York Times introduced the phrase “woke capital.” Essentially, Douthat...
The Myth of Efficient Government Service
by Murray N. Rothbard via Mises Institute [This excerpt from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market is an explanation and elaboration of points...
War as Spoliation
by Claude Frédéric Bastiat via Mises Institute A man (and the same thing may be said of a people) may procure the means of existence...
Biden’s “Historic Growth” Is No Such Thing.
by Daniel Lacalle via Mises.org I was surprised to see a tweet from President Joe Biden showing the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States for...
Wokism Could Provoke a Global Anti-American Backlash
by José Niño via Mises.org “What starts here changes the world.” The University of Texas at Austin’s motto not only applies to the research university’s...