Mises Wire

"It is a great comfort to every administration to be able to make its citizens happy by spending. For public opinion will then attribute the resulting boom to its current rulers." 

Contemporary supporters of an expanded role for government are increasingly moving away from calling themselves liberals toward referring to themse

Uber, Lyft, and similar rideshare companies represent a direct threat to state-controlled taxi cartels and their (increasingly unsellable) medallions.

Judge Napolitano points out that if government is spying on everyone, it's not spending it's time on spying on those who are most likely to actually use violence against others. 

It is hardly a relief for British households that £100 worth of consumer goods will now cost them around £99.90, when other prices in the UK economy are experiencing a rapid inflation. 

On calls for protecting Fed "independence" in the name of controlling inflation: "This is the Johnny-one-note of the Fed’s defense of its unbridled power."

Are bees really dying off, and can the government solve the problem? 

The New York Times reports on how the Japanese internment camps are passing out of living memory, and how imprisonment impacted the economic and physical lives of the prisoners. 

Mario Rizzo suggests that if you want to be remembered as an economist, you should be an Austrian.

Medicine has gone the way of economics in preferring aggregates to specifics, although such methods do little to explain the needs of individual patients. On the other hand, the turn toward large-scale aggregation does help the government to centrally plan health care policy.