Mises Daily

MetLife is under fire for doing exactly what insurance companies are supposed to do: matching risk with premiums. 

The Hirohito gold coin was fixed at a very high legal-tender value in terms of yen. Then the price of gold fell.

The Fed-fueled boom in Web commerce turned to bust, but that says nothing about the merit of the medium, writes Lew Rockwell.

A former secretary of labor regrets the state's declining effective power over economic life. A review by Christopher Westley. 

It is the inevitable consequence of Fed interest-rate manipulations to disturb, disrupt, and disarrange economic activity, writes Hans Sennholz.

Tax protestors prevailed and stopped a new tax. Some lawmakers called it "mob rule," but it was really just state taxpayers trying to preserve liberty.

It's true that antitrust is inefficient. More fundamentally, it is an attack on private property rights. William Anderson explains. 

Contrary to popular belief, interest rates have nothing to do with money. The attempt to manipulate interest via the money supply can only cause distortions. 

Conservatives' idea of public policy is to outspend the statists and outregulate the regulators. And, writes Norman Barry, they have lost six million votes since 1992.

Sometimes you have to make a choice between man and the natural world. As Tibor Machan notes, environmentalists often side against man.