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....

The outlook for the Swiss economy is better than a month ago but still in negative territory. Keystone-SDA / Jean-Christophe Bott Listen to the article Listening the article...

Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues this Monday evening, November 4, with Don Boudreaux,  former president of The Foundation for Economic Education and current professor economics at George Mason University.  7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time.  Register here. Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference, which are being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. There is also an excellent third JFK...

The freedom of speech is today threatened in the West to a degree not seen since the nineteenth-century classical liberals battled the censorious police states of the old conservative regimes. The free-market liberals largely won that battle, yet everywhere that a ruling class knows it is both unpopular and outnumbered it will attempt to silence free speech. A common argument used by those who cling to illegitimate power is the claim that free speech will encourage...

If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt on Harris’s victory will be vilified like one of those January 6, 2021 protestors sent to prison for “parading without a permit” in the US Capitol. Actually, anyone who doubted the 2020 election results was being prominently denounced as...

Die Nationalbank lanciert einen Gestaltungswettbewerb für neue Banknoten. Sie bekennt sich damit zum Bargeld – und sorgt dafür, dass die Noten auch in Zukunft sicher, funktional und ansprechend sein werden. Erstmals will die Nationalbank aber die Meinung der Bevölkerung bei der Bewertung der Entwürfe einfliessen lassen.  

Waren und Dienstleistungen verteuerten sich im Oktober um durchschnittlich 2,0 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat. Das ist etwas mehr als Ökonomen gerechnet hatten. Im September war die Inflationsrate mit 1,6 Prozent noch auf den tiefsten Stand seit rund dreieinhalb Jahren gesunken.

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....

Die UBS überraschte mit ihren Quartalszahlen einmal mehr die Märkte. Doch im Integrationsprozess steht ihr noch viel Arbeit bevor. Und auf einen zentralen Aspekt hat die Grossbank nur bedingt Einfluss. Eine Analyse.

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually alternate in first and second place, but occasionally George Washington will come in second. In the past several years, Donald Trump has been ranked dead last in all of them while Joe Biden has ranked...