January 2023

The Moral Foundations of Civil Societyby William RöpkeTransaction Publishers, (1948) 1996; xxxvii + 235 pp. In an earlier column, I discussed Wendell Berry’s stress on land and locality, and. among Austrian school economists, Wilhelm Röpke is most sympathetic to these themes.

For all of the political "reforms" being tossed about, the truth is that government is slowly strangling the life out of our society. Original Article: "Political Salvation Is Slow Suicide" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

One of the most devastating moments in American history took place on August 6 and August 9, 1945, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Approximately three hundred thousand civilians, forty-three thousand soldiers, forty-five thousand Korean slave laborers, and over

On January 10, the French government announced plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The change would mean that after 2027, workers in France would have to work 43 years to qualify for a government pension, instead

The Federal Reserve has created a huge boom full of bubbles. But after the boom must eventually come a bust. Ryan and Tho talk to Mises Institute Senior Fellow Mark Thornton about what to expect from the next recession and

It's only a good time to be a worker in America if one confuses falling real wages and falling full-time employment with robust employment conditions.  Original Article: "Biden Is Lying about the Jobs Data" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

I am sorry to have to report that Yuri Maltsev has passed away. He was a professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the United States in

It’s theoretically impossible for government to regulate vaccines effectively. To see why, consider the following thought experiment: Imagine you were an expert employed somewhere in the government’s sprawling healthcare apparatus, and further imagine that you received incontrovertible evidence that every

The similar challenges facing America and Brazil, including concerns about the state of their democracies, is worthy of exploration, as is the global response to the protest and what that response means for those opposed to the current “neoliberal” international