How Praxeology Helps Us Understand the Real World
Critics of praxeology often claim that it is isn’t really one of the sciences. It isn’t about the empirical world but is mere idle play with words. In this week’s …
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The Roots of the Afghanistan War
After completing a controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan in late August, the United States is facing valid questions about the legitimacy of its foreign escapades launched in the last twenty years …
The Afghan Scam
[Column written by Murray Rothbard for the New Libertarian 4, no. 7 (April-June 1980): 13–15.] The Iran/Afghanistan crises have been a god-send to Jimmy Carter. From being lowest in the …
“Shortages” Aren’t Causing Inflation. Money Creation Is.
For central bankers and mainstream analysts the recent inflation outburst is only a transitory phenomenon which has nothing or very little to do with the massive monetary and fiscal stimuli …
The Economic Foundations of Freedom
[Economic Freedom and Interventionism (1980)] Animals are driven by instinctive urges. They yield to the impulse that prevails at the moment and peremptorily asks for satisfaction. They are the puppets …
It’s Wrong to Draft Women. It’s Also Wrong to Draft Men.
As in many previous years, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is chock-full of terrible legislation slyly inserted into the NDAA for the purposes of concealing matters from the …
Defaulting on the Debt Is the Moral Thing to Do
Raising the debt limit will only delay the inevitable while courting fiscal and monetary chaos: higher interest rates, cuts to social programs, a declining dollar, and price inflation. This Audio …
Why Americans Would Benefit from a Government Default
The Biden administration’s rhetoric on the debt ceiling has become nothing short of apocalyptic. The Treasury Department has announced that a failure to increase the debt ceiling “would have catastrophic …
How the West Adopted China-Style Lockdowns
In the face of an “invisible enemy,” many Western nations have implemented emergency measures that were once considered dystopian and wholly incompatible with liberal democracy. This Audio Mises Wire is …
Without Lockdowns, Sweden Had Fewer Excess Deaths Than Most of Europe
It’s now been more than eighteen months since governments began the new social experiment now known as “lockdowns.” Prior to 2020, forced “social distancing” was generally considered to be too costly …