There is never good reason to give up hope, and I’m convinced that the forces of freedom will prevail. Yet these are dark times for liberty. The rise of socialism is bad enough, but there are other dangers as well. The political elites in both major parties are using every excuse to build up the welfare-warfare-police-surveillance state. The Fed
When economic crises hit, most pundits and intellectuals never see it coming. That is because they have never learned the lesson that Bastiat sought to teach, namely that we need to look beneath the surface, to the unseen dimensions of human action, in order to see the full economic reality. It is not enough just to stand back and look at points
A hedge fund in New York known to Mises is looking for two interns for this summer. “I thought Mises was a good place to look given that our world views are the same. Qualifications: smart, hungry to succeed, finance education, desire to work in finance, common sense, high EQ, abstract thinker, believer in American exceptionalism, willing to work
Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of the United States is. More importantly, I don’t need to know or care. I don’t have to vote or even pay attention to debates. I can ignore all campaign commercials. There are no high stakes for my family or my
The Bretton Woods plan for monetary reconstruction did not go as far as Keynes would have liked. He proposed a full-scale world central bank and a single paper currency for all nations, which he wanted to be called the “bancor,” so there could be no escaping inflation. That plan is still awaiting implementation. As it was, the Bretton Woods
At the heart of the Christmas story rests some important lessons concerning free enterprise, government, and the role of wealth in society. Let’s begin with one of the most famous phrases: “There’s no room at the inn.” This phrase is often invoked as if it were a cruel and heartless dismissal of the tired travelers Joseph and Mary. Many renditions
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. According to a left-wing propaganda narrative that you can read in the New York Times , Washington Post , CNN, and similar outlets, the violence in Congress that occurred in the afternoon of January 6 was the culmination of a long series of outrages by President Donald Trump. When he
[Editor’s Note: In 2011, Lew Rockwell penned this thorough explanation of what fascism really is and what must be done to combat it. Fascism, unlike what the dominant media narrative asserts, has virtually nothing to do with people expressing politically incorrect opinions, or people refusing to wear masks, or a group of disorganized rioters
La mayoría de los expertos e intelectuales nunca ven venir las crisis económicas. Esto se debe a que nunca han aprendido la lección que Bastiat pretendía enseñar, a saber, que hay que mirar debajo de la superficie, a las dimensiones invisibles de la acción humana, para ver la realidad económica completa. No basta con quedarse mirando los puntos de
Un joven, brillante y muy exitoso gestor de fondos de cobertura en la ciudad de Nueva York está buscando dos pasantes para este verano. «Pensé que Mises era un buen lugar para buscar, dado que nuestras visiones del mundo son las mismas. Requisitos: inteligente, con hambre de éxito, formación en finanzas, deseo de trabajar en finanzas, sentido
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