Mises Wire

During October 2019, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 4.95 percent. That's up from September's rate of 3.10 percent, and was up from October 2018's rate of 3.49 percent.

There is a growing drumbeat from some high-profile economists to reassure Americans that large increases in income and wealth taxes won’t distort labor markets. Yet much of their arguments are very misleading.

The ECB, always happy to repeat the mistakes of Japan, is likely to start new programs of debt monetization for green projects and claim it is a different, radical and new measure.

Paternalism has in recent years made a comeback, but its philosophical foundation is quite flimsy.

If governments really want to help former criminals get jobs, they should stop turning so many small-time offenses into crimes.

Behavioral economists are masters of comparing apples to oranges and dressing up incorrect statements in fancy language and mathematics.

Paul Cantor's new book provides a new look at how the "American dream" is shown in pop culture as offering both hope and frustration.

To prohibit discrimination in employment is to infringe upon freedom of association, freedom of thought, private property, and freedom in general.

For many Brazilian voters, Jair Bolsonaro offered a chance to break with decades of failed economic policies. Time will tell if they were right.

School children learn that there are three branches of government. In actual practice, there is a fourth branch, the permanent bureaucracy which includes legions of civilian and military agents, officers, and administrators committed to protecting their own interests.