1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1083+ words) Calls to "tax the rich" are, once again, gaining traction online in recent weeks. It kicked off last month after New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a new tax on second homes in New York City worth more than $5 million....

16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (108+ words) The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited. Original article: https: //mises. org/mises-wire/depopulation-wont-save-us-or-planet Depopulation Won't Save Us or the Planet The recent…...

16+ hour, 45+ min ago  (908+ words) April 9, 2025: The White House has spent four days insisting the tariffs are here to stay. The president himself posted that morning: "BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well." His trade advisor is on television, calling market panic "no…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (792+ words) Many people today consider the prospect of a socialist utopia to be very appealing. Even if they do not believe such a utopia is achievable in its purest sense, they believe it is something we all ought to work towards....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (223+ words) Ryan Mc Maken argues that the American constitutional structure has become a suicide pact: states cannot secede, cannot protect themselves from neighboring states' policies, cannot adopt genuinely federal internal governance, and cannot redraw their own borders. It's a system that…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (185+ words) Murray Rothbard argues that the nation-state's boundaries'invariably acquired by force'deserve no more sanctity than any other product of conquest. He proposes radical decentralization through secession, down to the neighborhood level, as the path to genuine nations formed by consent rather…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (294+ words) Mises's response, addressing subsidies more generally, is instructive: "A project P is unprofitable when and because consumers prefer the satisfaction expected from the realization of some other projects to the satisfaction expected from the realization of P. The realization of P…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (165+ words) On top of mounting numbers of retirees, record numbers of young men are claiming to be disabled or sick." A central banker has two lives: the first is spent studying neoclassical money supply mechanics; the second begins when they realize…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (243+ words) Human Action is indispensable for comprehending the operation and consequences of interventionism, which is the least understood economic system. The treatise is the culmination of Mises's long-standing research program, which was to analyze and compare the three possible economic systems'capitalism,…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (362+ words) Hoxie visited New York, and asked Johnson to come to his hotel for the evening. Hoxie "was frightening in his appearance." He told Johnson that he was finished. "I can see now, all my work has been bunk. All my…...