Mises Daily

Peace and not war is the father of all things. Peace builds; war destroys.

Crony capitalism and Keynesianism are just two sides of the same debased coin.

The American government has transformed itself from “humanitarians with a guillotine” to “humanitarians with weapons of mass murder and destruction.”

Prohibition encourages suppliers to concentrate the product to make it smaller and thus more potent. In this manner you get “more bang for the buck.”

To him, the true Indian was expected to be a spiritually-charged die-hard collectivist.

Every nation, whether rich or poor, powerful or feeble, can at any hour once again adopt the gold standard.

Supporters of the principle need not worry.The objections don’t hold up.

The conclusion of Ohanian’s paper is quite—one is tempted to say “hardcore”—Rothbardian.

Should President Obama ignite an even more horrific war on drugs, à la Ronald Reagan, or should he take a different path?

The cut-wages-through-inflation strategy is part of Krugman’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose way of arguing.