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Throughout history, until about the middle of the 18th century, mass poverty was nearly everywhere the normal condition of man....

It was government policies that kick-started the engine of financial innovation, wrongly blamed by many in the press and left-leaning...

In his book Let’s Have Socialism Now! (Yale University Press, 2001), the French economist Thomas Piketty places great emphasis on “solidarity,”...

Years of bubbles and malinvestment have a downside: the destruction of the productive, wealth-building parts of the economy. And that...

It is well known that socialism is a shortage economy. It is the economy of inefficiency and corruption, of indifferent...

The yearly growth rate of US's "Austrian money supply" jumped by almost 80 percent in February 2021 (see chart). Given such massive...

Editor's Note: Interest rates and inflation are certainly connected to efforts on the parts of central banks to loosen and...

We can see that these massive trillion-dollar stimulus programs generate a virtually nonexistent long-term positive impact, just a short-term bounce...

Mises Wire readers are probably familiar with nineteenth-century American proto-libertarian Lysander Spooner (1808–87). Spooner’s radical challenges to statism are best summed...

Google says it can only tolerate "accurate" information and has banned LewRockwell.com from its advertising program. This position only makes...