1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (1083+ words) Calls to "tax the rich" are, once again, gaining traction online in recent weeks. It kicked off last month after New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a new tax on second homes in New York City worth more than $5 million....

15+ hour, 39+ min ago  (108+ words) The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited. Original article: https: //mises. org/mises-wire/depopulation-wont-save-us-or-planet Depopulation Won't Save Us or the Planet The recent…...

16+ hour, 21+ min ago  (908+ words) April 9, 2025: The White House has spent four days insisting the tariffs are here to stay. The president himself posted that morning: "BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well." His trade advisor is on television, calling market panic "no…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (792+ words) Many people today consider the prospect of a socialist utopia to be very appealing. Even if they do not believe such a utopia is achievable in its purest sense, they believe it is something we all ought to work towards....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (223+ words) Ryan Mc Maken argues that the American constitutional structure has become a suicide pact: states cannot secede, cannot protect themselves from neighboring states' policies, cannot adopt genuinely federal internal governance, and cannot redraw their own borders. It's a system that…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (620+ words) Jevons strand of marginalism," says George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen in a short but provocative new book on the marginal revolution, The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution, contained the seeds of its own destruction....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (300+ words) This is not a cycle of greed. It is spontaneous order doing what it always does: finding the path around the obstruction. The shadow is not a creature of finance. It is the shape of the wall. But some of…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (185+ words) Murray Rothbard argues that the nation-state's boundaries'invariably acquired by force'deserve no more sanctity than any other product of conquest. He proposes radical decentralization through secession, down to the neighborhood level, as the path to genuine nations formed by consent rather…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (296+ words) The hypothesis of this essay is that Human Action'particularly the first few hundred pages'was instrumental to the new way of economic thinking that emerged with the new Chicago School, the Public Choice School, price theory, economic imperialism, general equilibrium analysis,…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (294+ words) Mises's response, addressing subsidies more generally, is instructive: "A project P is unprofitable when and because consumers prefer the satisfaction expected from the realization of some other projects to the satisfaction expected from the realization of P. The realization of P…...