Mises Daily

"The slaughter committed by barbarians would not add up to one-tenth the horrors perpetrated by rulers with good intentions."

Advocates of commercial treaties maintain that freedom of trade must be reciprocal. Whether they know it or not, they are protectionists in principle.

A trade deficit per se is not a sign of a bad economy. Indeed the trade deficit might blossom if the US ever returned to the gold standard.

In March 1968, a crisis of confidence in the dollar on the free gold markets led the United States to effect a fundamental change in the monetary system. 

Restriction of the freedom of trade was, for members of the league, intimately connected with "landlordism" and the aristocracy. 

International exchange and economic freedom are mutually reinforcing, while protectionism is a form of political control. 

Price stability is a scheme dreamed up by central bankers and other interventionists in an effort to circumvent markets. 

Adam Young tells the true story of  William Tell, the Swiss legendary hero who symbolizes the struggle for individual and political freedom.