F.A. Hayek and the Concept of Coercion
[This article is taken from chapter 28 of The Ethics of Liberty.1 Listen to this chapter in MP3, read by Jeff Riggenbach. You can listen and download the entire book here for podcast and download.] In his monumental work The Constitution
Taking Back Our Liberty in 2022
For those of us who value liberty, these past two years have been a bad dream. It seems like we fell asleep in early 2020 and woke up in 1984! They said that if we just put on a mask
Mark Packard On Entrepreneurial Imagination: You Can’t Do Business Without It
Imagination is the first stage of any value generation journey — starting a development project, enhancing the customer experience, embarking on innovation, or building a business for the next year or the next decade. Imagination might sound like a fuzzy
New York State Has Imposed New Covid Rituals. This Time There’s Some Resistance.
With new mask and vaccine mandates, New York's Governor Kathy Hochul has reaffirmed the state’s status as the nation’s most zealous practitioner of covid cultism. Original Article: "New York State Has Imposed New Covid Rituals. This Time There's Some Resistance." This Audio
How to Avoid Depressions? Foster Saving and Investment
Economic depressions are not caused by a strong decline in the money stock, but by a depleted stock of real savings. Original Article: "How to Avoid Depressions? Foster Saving and Investment" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated
Will Artificial Intelligence Create a Socialist Paradise?
Relating a quip by Soviet economist Nikolai Fedorenko, Yuri Maltsev illustrated the problem with socialism in his foreword to Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. Fedorenko said, at the time, in Maltsev’s words, “[A] fully balanced, checked,
Anarchist’s Progress
The Majesty of the Law When I was seven years old, playing in front of our house on the outskirts of Brooklyn one morning, a policeman stopped and chatted with me for a few moments. He was a kindly man, of
Ron Desantis Plans to Revive Florida’s State Militia
Genuine change will likely come only through muddling through at the state and local level. That kind of work will be instrumental in the creation of decentralized alternatives to our present political order. Original Article: "Ron Desantis Plans to Revive Florida's
Inflation or Recession? The Fed Faces a Choice.
On December 15, the Federal Reserve announced numerous quantitative tightening measures that have the intended goal of combating the rising inflation that has been bogging down the American economy. As of November 2021, the rate of inflation has reached 6.8
America’s Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits
The true cost of America's wars—in lost productivity, resources, and opportunity cost—is far higher than even the official numbers of trillions spent on the Pentagon's many failures. Original Article: "America's Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits" This Audio Mises