As AI continues to grow, we are told to fear private transactions and to depend on the state for safety and security. The reality is that we need to fear the state and what it will do to us as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/were-freaking-doomed-without-freedom-state-rule

This key decision of the Continental Congress matters because the way a war is fought affects the outcomes; the choice to fight like a state means either losing or winning like a state.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/charles-lee-alternative-george-washington-youve-probably-never-heard

According to the University of Michigan’s latest Index of Consumer Sentiment, a record number of Americans have negative views of the economy. This is yet more evidence that the American people are dissatisfied with their economic condition.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/federal-reserve-why-people-are-unhappy

Time is a unique resource in economics because we cannot create more of it and are subject to its limitations. Ludwig von Mises and the Austrians understand the role of time in economic better than most other mainstream economists.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/subjective-nature-time-bergson-mises

Thanks to the Fed’s creation of asset bubbles, the US economy is producing many billionaires. However, the savvy entrepreneur is becoming increasingly scarce.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/great-disconnect-when-wealth-and-productive-ability-diverge

Can a communist system flourish under a liberal government? Bernie Sanders says yes, but Melanie Armstrong, author of Chicken in a Strange Way, gives a resounding no.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-calculation-and-southern-california-beach-girl

Government economic policies reflect abstract ideas of what agents wish reality were like. Praxeology is not beholden to abstract economic fantasies.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/praxeology-antidote-hyperreality

The financial analyst Richard Daughty, whose pen name was Mogambo Guru, passed away four years ago, but while he was alive, he produced spot-on criticisms of the US government and its inflation rocket fuel booster, the Federal Reserve System.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/remembering-mogambo-guru

As socialists gain power in American cities and states, they look to destroy the creation of wealth and to tax the wealth-creators into oblivion. We know how these scenarios end.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/crazy-wealth-tax-proposals-california-and-new-york-city

The latest rage among defense contractors is the rise of the high-tech “neo-primes,” firms which supposedly will apply “smart” militarization. History and reality tell us, however, that these companies soon enough will be as bloated and corrupt as their contemporaries.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/beware-neo-primes