Mises Wire

Just because some judges agreed with a law in the past doesn't make that law good or moral. 

The history of shadow banking development confirms Mises’s thesis that each government intervention leads to unintended consequences.

Mises always maintained that the war for liberty is won or lost on the battlefield of ideas.

The Vatican's latest document on the financial system calls for a variety of laws and sanctions to stop people from being greedy. 

It is unfortunate that a scholar as careful as Robert Skidelsky has chosen to downplay the historical reality of the failure of central banking.

Some members of Congress are pushing for new laws to make police a protected group in a way similar to "hate crime" legislation. 

It takes a lot of verbal acrobatics to conclude that Venezuela's woes are not due to it's extensive implementation of the socialist program. 

Restrained by both ideology and public sentiment, central banks were once kept from the sort of antics they now regularly indulge in.

The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics. It is more rampant now than at any time in the past.

The bummer about the euroskeptics in Italy is that their primary interest is making Italy's bloated public sector ever bigger.