Mises Wire

I offer my own definition of government: Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

In Canada, it is estimated that between 25,456 and 63,090 Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times between 1993 and 2009.

In a city with rapidly rising housing needs, there is really only one way to keep housing prices stable or falling: produce a lot of housing.

What makes restitution work well in Japan is that private individuals and groups are much more responsible for controlling crime.

There is a myth that Progressive humanitarians agitated for meat-packing regulations which now protect us from disease. The reality is that the big meat packers themselves wanted regulation to help crush the competition.

To cause a truly disastrous boom and bust with far-fetching real consequences, you need to control the money supply.

The money supply growth rate fell in August, dropping to a 150-month low.  To find a lower growth rate, we need to go back to August 2007, when the rate was 1.59 percent.

James Grant's new book Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, reveals there we can still learn a lot from the world that existed before our modern era of central banking.

Rent controls are a recipe for less housing, and unaffordable rents. At least for most people.

The destruction of capital, economic and otherwise, is contrary to every human impulse.