Our Enemy, the Stateby Albert Jay Nock This year the theme of the Institute’s Supporters Summit was “Our Enemy, the State.” What better book review for this issue of The Misesian, then, than a discussion of Albert Jay Nock’s Our Enemy, the State, first published in 1935? In what follows, I’ll talk about some of the insights in that book.Nock draws a distinction between the state and society, though sometimes he describes this distinction as between the state and...

Die Nationalbank hat den Leitzins in diesem Jahr zum vierten Mal in Serie gesenkt. Langsam aber sicher würden ihr die Mittel ausgehen und Negativzinsen unausweichlich, sagt Thomas Rühl, der Investmentchef der Schwyzer Kantonalbank.

As the Washington drawbridge lowers for a second Trump administration, the world attempts to glean any insights that might indicate the direction of his second term. At the top of the list of concerns is the topic of sanctions.As of 2024, the US is actively sanctioning a third of all nations on earth. As the American populace grew more wary of military entanglements and forever wars, consecutive administrations have exponentially escalated the use of the economic...

«Privatmarktanlagen bieten nach wie vor Potenzial für höhere Renditen und Erträge, eine grössere Widerstandsfähigkeit des Portfolios und einen differenzierten Zugang zu den wichtigsten globalen Megathemen. 2025 verspricht ein Jahrgang zu werden, in den man investieren sollte», schreibt Dr. Nils Rode, Chief Investment Officer, Schroders Capital.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC 0) Von Dr. Benedikt Koehler, Historiker in London. Für Hegel gründete Freiheit auf dem Recht auf Eigentum. Das Eintreten der Französischen Revolution für die Freiheit des Eigentums war ihm so wichtig wie das Eintreten des Christentums für die Freiheit der Person: “Es ist wohl an die anderthalb tausend Jahre, daß die Freiheit der Person durch das Christentum zu erblühen angefangen hat …. Die Freiheit des Eigentums aber ist seit gestern, kann man sagen, hier und da...

This essay is adapted from a speech delivered at the Mises Institute’s Supporters Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina, on October 12, 2024.“Printing Power” in our title has a double meaning: It can mean “printing power”—the power to print money, which central banks have. But we will focus on “printing power”—the central bank’s money printing as an essential source of the power of the state, including of course the Federal Reserve’s printing to promote the power of...

All States Are Empires of Economic Lies—Tom DiLorenzoI’m going to start out by expressing my agreement with Doug Casey, who wrote about the economics profession of today. Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists. They tailor theories to help politicians demonstrate the virtue and necessity of their quest for more power.This has been going on for a long time. Here’s the founding document of the American Economic Association from the 1880s....

What Went Wrong with Capitalismby Ruchir SharmaSimon and Schuster, 2024; 384 pp.It is always encouraging when a non–Austrian School economist accepts through his own reasoning an essential tenet of Austrian economics. Ruchir Sharma, who is chairman of Rockefeller International, founder and chief investments officer of Breakout Capital, and a well-known economic journalist, is not an Austrian, though he is aware of Friedrich Hayek’s work. He lends strong support to...

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