Mises Wire

Despite harsh penalties for drug dealers, China's numbers on drug use are not significantly different from those in the US. 

With ultra-low interest rates already in place, Europe has nowhere to go when the slowdown intensifies. 

"Project Labor Agreements" makes government infrastructure spending even more expensive and inefficient. 

America's thriving energy sector has boomed in part thanks to inexpensive foreign steel. 

"False consciousness" has long been a building block behind the Marxist drive to destroy human rights. 

Broadening state powers to declare people "mentally ill" is a dangerous proposition. 

The only real cure for too much debt is an orderly process of liquidation. No bailouts. No subsidies. No taxpayer involvement.

Whether or not a child should vote depends on whether or not he or she is a net taxpayer. 

Nationalism is not a unitary, monolithic phenomenon. If it is aggressive, we should oppose it; if liberatory, we should favor it. 

The new Florida legislation is a mess, but it does manage to introduce some chilling language about mental health.