Let them Merge: Foreign Acquisition of US Steel
Nippon Steel's proposal to merge with US Steel is meeting opposition from the usual suspects in Washington, not to mention Tucker Carlson. Their hysteria is off the charts. Original Article: Let them...
View ArticleAmerica's Corn Crop Comes from "Corny" Subsidies
America's famous Corn Belt should better be known as the nation's Subsidy Belt. Original Article: America's Corn Crop Comes from "Corny" Subsidies
View ArticleCentral Banks Brought Inflation. Now they Bring Stagnation.
Although the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank’s message regarding interest rate cuts seems clear, reiterating their commitment to reducing inflation, the market is expecting between five...
View ArticleTime Is Running Out!
YOUR GIFT WILL HELP US DO MORE IN 2024. With your gift of $25 or more, you will receive a copy of Joe Salerno's The Progressive Road to Socialism. Recurring donors of $10 who give $100 will also...
View ArticleSound Money Movement Strikes Gold in 2023
Against the backdrop of high inflation rates and geopolitical uncertainty, states are increasingly enacting measures that encourage saving in precious metals and even using gold and silver as money....
View ArticleHow the American Revolution Turned North American Foreign Trade on Its Head
[Chapter 1 of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791.] After peace came in 1783, the new republic faced a two-fold economic adjustment: to...
View Article2023: A Year Reviewed
In this episode, Mark looks back at 2023 as a great year for the goals and prospects of the Mises Institute moving forward, but a very bad year for the State. Be sure to follow Minor Issues at...
View ArticleLast Day to Give in 2023!
YOUR GIFT WILL HELP US DO MORE IN 2024. With your gift of $25 or more, you will receive a copy of Joe Salerno's The Progressive Road to Socialism. Recurring donors of $10 who give $100 will also...
View ArticleWhen Nationalism Fuels Decentralization and Secession: Lessons from the Cold War
[This article is chapter 6 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Now available at Amazon and in the Mises Store.] During the early 1990s, as the...
View ArticlePrivatizing Roads Solves the Problem of Road Closures
While traveling recently, I was stuck in a terrible bout of traffic. Unbeknownst to me, West Virginia University’s fall graduation just ended, and I was caught in the middle of the seemingly endless...
View ArticleReflections on the Rothbard Graduate Seminar
I had the good fortune of attending the Rothbard Graduate Seminar (RGS) twice in succession, during the summers of 2020 and 2021. By that time, I was already quite familiar with the ideas of the...
View ArticleThe Real Meaning of Inflation and Deflation
[Excerpted from Chapter 17 of Human Action.] The services money renders are conditioned by the height of its purchasing power. Nobody wants to have in his cash holding a definite number of pieces of...
View ArticleGood Logic Prevents Bad Regulation
Much onerous and harmful government regulation can be prevented by the application of well-known and well-understood principles of logic. I will use the recent regulations placed upon Americans in...
View ArticleMises and Popper on Action
Many years ago, in “The Communist Road to Self-Enslavement” (included in After the Open Society, a collection of Karl Popper’s papers edited by Jeremy Shearmur), I discovered the following sentence:...
View ArticleThe Wrong Way and the Right Way to Fix the Fed
Monetary Policy as Inflationism Today all governments and central banks operate under the ideology of inflationism. The underlying principle of inflationism is that the quantity and purchasing power of...
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The Escalating Tensions in the Red Sea Are a Bad Omen
On New Year’s Eve, US Navy helicopters in the Red Sea engaged and sank three boats belonging to Yemen’s Houthis, killing ten. According to US Central Command, the boats were attacking a container ship...
View ArticleWhat an Old Coin Collection Tells Us about Money from the Past
A coin collection can tell a lot about this nation's monetary history, and especially what happened nearly 60 years ago after the government debased U.S. coinage. This history is not having a happy...
View ArticleThe Anti-Semitism Controversy on College Campuses Is the Direct Result of...
Anyone following the news knows that after a bruising congressional hearing on antisemitism on elite college campuses knows that Liz Magill, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and...
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Resurrecting the Failed Policy of Rent Control
It certainly isn’t common to find much agreement between the various authors here at the Mises Institute and our favorite metaphorical punching bag: Paul Krugman. But when it comes to the recently...
View ArticleWhy More Secession Means Lower Taxes and More Trade
[This article is Chapter 9 of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.] When we hear of political movements in favor of decentralization and secession, the...
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