Nigel Biggar, a recently retired professor of theology at Oxford University, has never shunned controversy, as the title of one of his books, In Defence of War, suggests. In this week’s column, I’d like to examine an article of his,

The best people in the world support the Mises Institute. Will you join them? Who are they? People just like you. People who happen to care deeply about human liberty and human flourishing. People who care about real economics. People who

The Fed's entire "strategy" can be summed up as "hike 'til it breaks, cut 'til it inflates." That's the best all those PhDs at the Fed have managed to come up with.  Original Article: "The Fed Is Finally Seeing the Magnitude of the

Back in 1976, Joseph Salerno lamented that "there exists today in Anglo-American economics a veritable 'conspiracy of silence' regarding the works and achievements of the French Liberal School of Economics." Not a whole lot has changed since then, and the same can

The link between the transatlantic slave trade and industrial growth in Britain is a recurring theme in public discussions. There is a widespread assumption that the profitability of the slave trade requires Britain to compensate the descendants of Africans, since

Ryan and Tho talk with Mises.org author and German native Rosanna Weber about the energy crisis in Germany. German policymakers have greatly worsened the ongoing energy crisis in Germany by abandoning nuclear energy and taking a hard line on Russian natural gas.

While officials in the White House, Treasury, and the Fed give the appearance of being in control, but in truth, they cannot undo the damage they have done. Original Article: "Despite Their Hubris, Monetary Authorities Do Not Have Total Control" This Audio Mises

Many years ago, in his “Unscrambling Socialism” (Notes from FEE, November 1964), Leonard Read wrote: Any adept student of human action knows that it isn’t enough merely to “drop anchor” in today’s sea of socialism, that is, to stop where we

Today marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises, and day 4 of our annual Fall Campaign. Mises was the most important scholar of the twentieth century, a man who not only revolutionized our understanding of economic science, but was both the

Why does money have value? Typical economists claim that money is valuable because the government declares it so. But that is impossible, given the true origins of money, which are best explained by Austrian economists. Original Article: "Do People Accept Money Because