We are constantly bombarded with bad news. There are disasters, dangers, challenges, and woes. On the political scene, we find perpetual discord peppered with lurid denunciations and shrill condemnations. Media reports are alternately dismaying, disappointing, distressing, disgusting, or depressing. But despair not, friends: All is not lost! Here
On October 9, President Donald Trump announced that he was lifting the EPA’s ban on summertime sales of E15—a motor fuel blend consisting of 15% ethanol instead of the usual 10%. Trump’s announcement is telling. It teaches much about politics, trade policy, and the sorry state of the environmentalist movement. That Trump’s announcement was
The New York Times obituary opened with a simple recitation of facts: “Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking a Stalinist pseudoscience, died in London.” Zhores Medvedev, his twin brother Roy (still alive
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to impose tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on imported aluminum is the first major economic policy error of his presidency. What is the president’s motive? I firmly believe that Mr. Trump’s primary goal as president is to help American workers. Both his tax cut and his regulatory rollback
Estamos constantemente bombardeados con malas noticias. Hay desastres, peligros, desafíos y problemas. En la escena política, encontramos la discordia perpetua salpicada de morbosas denuncias y agudas condenas. Los informes de los medios son alternativamente desalentadores, decepcionantes, angustiosos, repugnantes o deprimentes. Pero no
El 9 de octubre, el presidente Donald Trump anunció que estaba levantando la prohibición de la EPA de las ventas de verano del E15, una mezcla de combustible para motor que consiste en un 15% de etanol en lugar del 10% habitual. El anuncio de Trump es revelador. Enseña mucho sobre política, política comercial y el lamentable estado del movimiento
El obituario del New York Times abrió con una simple recitación de los hechos: “Zhores A. Medvedev, el biólogo soviético, escritor y disidente que fue declarado demente, confinado en una institución mental y despojado de su ciudadanía en la década de 1970 después de atacar una pseudociencia estalinista, murió... en Londres”. Zhores Medvedev, su
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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.