Murphy’s Exposé on Money and Banking
George Ford Smith reviews Robert Murphy’s book Understanding Money Mechanics. Murphy, he writes, both explains money and why fiat money is such a dangerous thing in the hands of governments bent on grabbing power and abusing citizens.
Social Security and the Decline of the Employer Pension System
While Social Security is not exactly a pension system, it has had a negative effect on private pension plans and has discouraged people from engaging in long-term savings. In the end, its negative effects outweigh the positive ones.
Classical Liberal Roots of the Marxist Doctrine of Classes
Few ideas are as closely associated with Marxism, writes Ralph Raico, as the concepts of class and class conflict. But the concept itself, with a more realistic understanding, originates in liberal theory.
Murray Rothbard Understood the Importance of Self-Ownership
As Murray Rothbard noted, reason is a powerful tool to help us discern how to thrive in our world. Government, through propaganda and interference with education, seeks to stifle reason and replace it with obedience to the state.
Iran's Attack on Israel Provides an Opportunity to De-escalate
Recent Iranian missile strikes on Israel in response to its earlier attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria have escalated the prospects of all-out war in the Middle East. There is an alternative to expanding the war: de-escalation.
Can John C. Calhoun Save America?
Calhoun’s 173-year-old treatise is not just a diagnosis of how we got here, but a roadmap for escaping from this tyranny and being rid of the “woke” totalitarians among us.
Abundance, Generosity, and the State
In his latest book, Guido Hülsmann investigates the nature, forms, causes, and consequences of gratuitous goods and concludes that they thrive within a free economy.
FDR's War Against Civil Liberties
Historian David Beito joins Bob to discuss issues such as the Japanese concentration camps and the government's mass surveillance of telegrams.
The PPI Again!
Mark takes another look at the Producer Price Index.
Renato Moicano Cares About His Country More Than Sohrab Ahmari
Ryan and Tho discuss Renato Moicano's viral Mises moment and the backlash it received from pundit Sohrab Ahmari.
Disappointing News
The inflation news from the Federal Reserve is once again disappointing.
Auburn, AL
Research Fellowships at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, are available to graduate students and post-docs interested in scientific research in the Austrian school and libertarian political economy.
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Auburn, AL
Join us in Auburn in 2024 for an event celebrating 75 years of Human Action.
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Auburn, AL
Students apply now for the summer term Mises Book Club, beginning June 2024.
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Auburn, AL
2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rothbard Graduate Seminar, which provides an intense study of Misesian and Rothbardian economic analysis, along with the substantive conclusions of that research in related fields.
