Mises Institute
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Legal tender laws don’t force us to use dollars for everyday transactions, but they do overwhelmingly favor the dollar for use in paying taxes, paying debts, and more. This manufactured demand ([link removed]) for dollars goes a long way in securing its global status.
Sadly, the advent of monetary tyranny came in spite of many hard lessons learned about government intervention in previous periods. Justin Ptak today explains ([link removed]) ([link removed]) some of the early lessons Americans learned about market freedom.
Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief
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Monetary Tyranny: How Legal Tender Laws Paved the Way and How Competition Sets Us Free
Michael S. Milano
By making paper money legal tender, the government shut the door on sound money. Repealing legal tender laws is the first step back to liberty.
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Thanksgiving: Bradford’s 1623 Reform
Justin M. Ptak
The story of how the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock abandoned the common labor system and embraced private ownership is well known. While at first it affected a small community, William Bradford’s decision in favor of private enterprise would have a wide-ranging effect.
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Lysander Spooner and Other Antebellum Radicalism
Anti-slavery constitutionalism, consent of the governed, and a principled case for secession.
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Personal Liberty
Murray Rothbard on self-ownership, property rights, and the nonaggression principle.
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21st Century First 25 Years: US Government Bankruptcy
A non-exhaustive review of government spending over the last quarter century.
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Hofstadter on Lincoln
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward him.
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4 Reasons Why Socialism Fails
Even a degenerate capitalism produces more prosperity than the best socialism. Socialism only comes with negatives and no positives.
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The Great Depression: An Austrian Reply to WIRED
Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression.”
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The Misesian
In the latest issue of The Misesian, we give readers a sense of what happens at Mises University by featuring lectures and photos from the event, as well as testimonials from students.
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