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As the economy faulters, socialists are getting elected, promising free goods and services and an end to the chaos. Even when they make things worse, however, they will still gain political power. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/socialists-are-reaping-bountiful-political-harvest-while-they-create-havoc

Governments take valuable things like paper and minerals, stamp something on them, and call them money, in the process rendering these things almost worthless. Something is wrong with this picture. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/cost-money-coinage-fiat-power-and-quiet-corruption-value

In this article from 1950, Murray Rothbard suggests some of the less bad ways of financing military operations. Hint: monetary inflation and taxing savings and investment are among the worst. Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/economics-war

Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/marx-was-wrong-about-necessary-ruin-small-landed-property

Who would join a radical minority movement, and commit him- or herself for life to social obloquy and a marginal existence, for the sake of 20% more bathtubs, or 15% more candy bars? Who will man the barricades either physically or spiritually, for more peanuts or Pepsi? Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/duty-natural-outlaws-shut

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

To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social contract and the state represents you! Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-state-why-are-you-hitting-yourself

Entrepreneurship is a voluntary undertaking that causes change by providing value. No force, no threats, and no coercion are involved. It is market action fully in line with our libertarian ideals. And it provides alternatives, and produces variety. Original article: https://mises.org/misesian/how-change-world-entrepreneurship-versus-politics 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray’s 100th birthday—an...

California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and high taxes. The state’s future is about to become a lot worse, as socialists are rising in power here. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/where-california-went-wrong 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray’s 100th birthday—and we’re celebrating b...

Of course the president, like everyone, frequently protests his desire for peace. Everyone does this. And I think we may assume he is quite sincere about it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/president-goes-war 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray’s 100th birthday—and we’re celebrating by giving away free copies of Anatomy of the State through May 31. Grab yours today at https://mises...

If executed perfectly, this swap allows the Fed to neutralize a shrinking money supply by swapping $2 trillion in mortgages for $2 trillion in government debt.  Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/mbs-slope-n-swap

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. We are still waiting for that moment of peace. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fukuyama-was-wrong-history-did-not-end

The populist “victory” of the Trump administration is perhaps the best evidence yet that a strategy of “vote harder” is simply not going to lead to any significant change in the power of the regime. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/vote-harder-why-secession-only-answer-american-megastate 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free co...

Philosopher Matt Zwolinski has declared libertarianism to lack any coherent standards. Zwolinski’s confusion is the result of his rejection of libertarianism as outlined by Murray Rothbard and others based upon free markets based on individual rights. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/libertarianism-incoherent

The government created a market for stolen goods, paid criminals cash for five months, watched robberies spike, arrested everyone at a mafia-themed party, then called it a success because arrests went up. The robberies they subsidized didn't count. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/when-federal-government-subsidized-robberies

The recent DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center might be controversial, but what is not controversial is that the SPLC engaged in conduct that was more reminiscent of the Ministry of Love in 1984 than protecting someone’s civil rights. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/justice-department-indicts-ministry-love

Gold markets have been volatile, to put it mildly, and the drama isn’t over. Unfortunately, governments are so involved in the gold markets that true market prices are hard to find. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/precious-paper-problem-divergence-western-bullion-markets

In the late 1800s, American finally went in search of empire abroad, taking land by force and subjugating people who simply wanted their captors to leave. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-america-chose-empire

When the recent NFL draft was held in Pittsburgh, city officials declared bus fares would be free so fans would pack the auditorium where the draft was held. Who would have thought that making scarce goods free would bring about chaos with the bus riders? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nfl-draft-and-public-buses

It's not enough for an ideology to merely have a "good argument." Historical conditions must also combine to delegitimize the regime and its institutions.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/battle-ideas-paves-way-radicals-and-revolutionaries

As the US is involved in yet another pointless war, we would do well to remember the real costs of war, how it strips us of our liberties, and destroys our futures. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/remembering-costs-war

The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/ft-knox-full-impure-gold-unfit-international-transactions

The UK does not have an energy problem, it has a freedom problem. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/freedom-upsets-patterns-deregulation-argument-westminster-will-not-have

Luck egalitarians fallaciously declare property and wealth to be illegitimate or at least suspect due to a mysterious, unquantifiable force called luck. Their arguments fail even if what they claim about luck is true. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/luck-fallacy-and-luck-egalitarianism

The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called "American experiment"—was swept away long ago. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-are-living-fourth-american-republic