Mises Wire

What We Need is More Economic Ignorance

Tags: Booms and Busts, The Fed

08/26/2007 • Justin M. Ptak

A bizarre letter to the editor in the Business section of the Boston Globe:

The Dazzling James Grant

Tags: Business Cycles, Booms and Busts

08/26/2007 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

James Grant writes in the New York Times today, on cue as

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Tags: Big Government, Legal System

08/24/2007 • Justin M. Ptak

A trucker has sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to get back nearly

Ignorance of patents is no excuse!

Tags: Monopoly and Competition, Legal System

08/24/2007 • Stephan Kinsella

France to Ratify London Agreement on Patent Language

Interview with Mark Thornton

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Media and Culture

08/24/2007 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

About the Bastiat Collection:

Where’s my flag?

Tags: Political Theory, Media and Culture

08/24/2007 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

ZDnet says that the Mises Institute is the “flag carrier for official libertarianism

Is the Open Source Movement Libertarian?

Tags: Monopoly and Competition, Value and Exchange, Legal System

08/24/2007 • Justin M. Ptak

Yesterday the president of the Open Source Initiative attempted to show how the philosophy underscorin

Keeping “Order and Security” While Undercover With Rock in Hand in Montebello, Québec, CA

Tags: The Police State

08/23/2007 • Justin M. Ptak

Organizers of the protests at the North American leaders’

My Hero: Mark Mendel

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Free Markets, Legal System

08/23/2007 • Stephan Kinsella

Quote of the Day: Private Schools in Emerging Markets

Tags: Education, Taxes and Spending

08/22/2007 • Lisa Casanova

The Rise of Private Universities: