In response to the government-created “energy crises” that we have experienced in the past few years (more on the their “crisis” nature later), Congress, the courts, and the executive branch of the US government are united in their belief that energy futures must be administered futures. Whatever pretense the Republican administration has given to
The horrific bridge collapse in Minnesota has brought its share of news and commentary, much of it predictable. For example, the New York Times, which is relentless in its insistence that society is improved only through the growth of state power, wrote what essentially is a front-page editorial calling for higher taxes in Minnesota: MINNEAPOLIS,
In February, 2001, I saw the end of the credit-filled boom , as the stock market went bust, and predicted recessionary times, which soon followed. It seems, however, that Washington, D.C., is one great big toga party, and if it is true that Blutarsky of “Animal House” became Senator Blutarsky (as the film’s credits tell us at the end), perhaps
As the wildfires in California and elsewhere burn forests, homes, and businesses, and as a Katrina-sized evacuation continues, environmentalists and the media are making new claims : these disasters are the results of global warming. According to a recent “60 Minutes” broadcast and new claims on CNN, global warming is causing these newest
Mientras los incendios en California y otros lugares queman bosques, hogares y negocios y mientras continúa una evacuación del tamaño de la del Katrina, ecologistas y medios de comunicación realizan nuevas afirmaciones : estos desastres son el resultado del calentamiento global. Según reciente programa de «60 Minutes» y nuevas declaraciones en la
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.