Mises Wire

Socialism, democratic or otherwise, rides on the back of force and violence. When they drop the veil, its a government agent pointing a gun.

Joseph Stiglitz has written a new book that calls for massive state control over the economy.

The effort to nullify gun laws at the county level illustrate how the relationship between citizens and government can be quite different at a more local level.

Marx said that what he wanted was to create a one-world state. And that was Lenin’s idea too.

Government interventions in the marketplace crate side effects which distort markets and impoverish consumers. The government must then step in the "correct" the problems with even more intervention.

Social Democracy fails for the same reasons communism did. It just fails more slowly.

By threatening the Venezuelan regime and imposing sanctions, the US has only inflamed Venezuelan nationalism, while providing the regime with a convenient scapegoat.

It is not easy to change the failed policies of the Kirchner era without recognizing the enormous monetary and fiscal hole created by the previous administration.

The evolution of global trade over the last decades has thus been influenced to a significant and yet unrecognized extent by the expansionist monetary policies of governments around the world.

The way vaccines are packaged and distributed is often driven primarily by politics and government regulation — and not by medical concerns.