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I recently saw the documentary  They Shall Not Grow Old , an account by English soldiers of their experiences in the Great War of 1914-1918. Culled from hundreds of hours of colorized actual wartime footage, it’s a beautiful and heart wrenching film. It’s also a superb antiwar film, simply through its graphic and accurate depiction of mass death

Judy Shelton’s recent interview with the  Financial Times  is nothing short of remarkable. Her comments represent the most substantive attack on the Fed, and central banking generally, by any potential nominee to the Fed board in recent history. She not only challenges how  Jerome Powell and Fed officials conduct monetary policy, but  whether

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Fox News host Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves of this popular show last night to lambaste Austrian economics and libertarianism, which he views as twin pillars of a failed ideology that doesn’t protect American workers and their interests. The GOP, he argues, is in thrall to free-market

Daniel McCarthy, editor of  Modern Age  and editor at large for  The American Conservative,  recently published an essay on the Spectator  USA site titled “ Why Libertarians are Wrong .” It merits a response because Mr. McCarthy is friendly and sympathetic toward libertarianism, and despite the infirmities of his article ought to be seen as

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Presidential aspirant Kamala Harris promises to compel private companies with more than 100 employees to disclose what they pay employees to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. Companies that don’t pay women “enough” will pay fines until they demonstrate an acceptable level of gender

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Readers of a certain generation will remember the seminal 1980s rock band X , featured in Penelope Spheeris’s great documentary  The Decline of Western Civilization.  Punk and alternative bands in the Tipper Gore era struggled to get record deals, radio airplay, or even hire venues for gigs

Yesterday’s terrible fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral reminds us how quickly centuries of accumulated “cultural capital” can be destroyed. Oak timbers dating from the 1200s in the roof and spire were lost forever; some priceless stained glass windows appear to have suffered damage. As the saying goes, France is the heart of the West, Paris is the

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. 100 years ago, Ludwig von Mises literally wrote the book on socialism. But 25 years later, in 1946, Henry Hazlitt wrote the primer. Economics in One Lesson remains a classic. It may be the most important book about economics ever written for laymen. It’s a perennial best seller in our

Jeff Deist recently joined our friend Jay Taylor’s podcast.  Many billionaires — Ray Dalio, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates among them — like to call for higher taxes on people such as themselves. But this raises a compelling question: would they have become rich in the first place under the kind of tax system they now advocate? Would they have

Bernanke is absolutely savaged in the comments to this CNBC video detailing his $250K speaking fee (now that he has joined the “private” sector). This is a family blog, so we won’t reprint any of them here. But the comments show how laughably out of touch with reality our political/banking class really is. NOBODY believes the official story