Mises Wire

Since August 2023, total part-time jobs has increased by 1.4 million. During the same period, full-time jobs fell by more than 1.3 million. 

Inflation and artificial money creation through deficits and monetization are a gradual transfer of wealth from working people to the government. 

While modern academic and media culture portray black Africans as victims only of Europeans, the history of the African slave trade is much more complicated than historians and journalists want us to believe.

For the past fifty years, Nigeria’s government has required young people to “serve” for a year under the National Youth Service Corp. This more resembles slavery than service.

Bolivia has been mired in poverty, hyperinflation, and state control of the economy for generations. It is time for a change, and the Alasitas Fair is leading the way.

A strategy for liberty must be both optimistic and realistic. Murray Rothbard understood that important point and laid out strategies and their moral justification.

On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act.

While government officially measures inflation using weighted averages incorporated into the Consumer Price Index, in truth it is impossible to establish an average price level. It really is the proverbial apples-to-oranges comparison.

States know that treason and sedition laws are about much more than matters of law and order. They are essential components of enhancing state power. 

F.A. Hayek coined the term spontaneous order to point out that the prosperous societies are also societies where people are free to pursue their own goals. The result is, ironically, harmony that cannot come about through central state planning.