Mises Wire

As real wages decline and middle-class savings are depleted, the government expands its influence, garnering support from a substantial portion of the populace.

The Old Right was a principled band of intellectuals and activists, who fought the “industrial regimentation” of the New Deal. They loathed tariffs and saw protectionism as a species of socialist planning.

When passed in 1972, Title IX was hailed as a way to ensure women on college campuses received equal treatment to males. Today‘s Title IX is a bureaucratic nightmare, eviscerating due process of law and creating a tyrannical atmosphere on campus.

Progressives claim that the state grants us our rights, and that liberty can flourish only in the presence of a powerful state. The truth runs in the opposite direction.

While the US dollar is the world's “reserve” currency—at least for now—the reckless spending and money creation policies of the US government place the dollar in peril. 

Unfortunately for workers, it looks like the "Biden-Harris business boom" isn't much of a boom at all.

Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Of course.

In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War, which tries to fuse the foreign policies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. The result is a foreign policy Frankenstein.

The dockworkers strike will increase prices while generally acting "in restraint of trade." This, we are told, is exactly what big corporations want.  

In recent years we have repeatedly seen how the Federal Reserve's much-touted two-percent price-inflation goal is little more than a political slogan.