States continue to seek new ways to make the financial system an “economic chokepoint” enabling the state to crack down on specific organizations, individuals, or activities. Original Article: "The West's Russia Sanctions Show Why States Want to Weaponize the Financial System" This

Those gloating about Russia being "cut off" are overstating the case. In fact, many of the world's largest countries have shown a reluctance to participate in the US's sanction schemes, and even close US allies aren't going along with it. Original

As the Ukraine regime has imposed martial law in the wake of the Russia invasion, it has also apparently imposed a new near-universal conscription order. USA Today reports: The Ukraine State Border Guard Service has announced that men ages 18 to 60 are

For understanding our modern monetary troubles, Nik Bhatia’s pamphlet-sized book from last year hits exactly the right intersection between money and banking, between the past and the future. Clocking in at around 150 pages of easy prose, it’s accessible but

Recorded at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022. The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Lou Church Foundation. Includes audience question and answer period. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is

Most people believe lending is associated with money. But there is more to lending. A lender lends savings to a borrower as opposed to "just money." Let us explain. Take a farmer, Joe, who has produced two kilograms of potatoes. For his

From the Volga Germans to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire to the Spaniards and the Mennonites, choosing emigration as a means of avoiding military conscription has a long history. Original Article: "America Has Long Been a Haven for Draft Dodgers

Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter. Original Article: "Love, Fear, and the Law of Good Intentions" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

The scientific method requires free and open dissent from any scientific hypothesis. Yet JAMA is requesting that medical boards become a new Inquisition to root out heresy and apostasy from CDC doctrines. Original Article: "Real Scientific Inquiry Requires Dissent. But That's

A new economic fallacy came of age in the course of the last prewar decade and threatens to play havoc with the future peace of the world. This fallacy consists in saying that a country's national prosperity depends, essentially, upon