Mises Wire

The answer to why people continue to work in such deplorable conditions is pretty simple: they don’t have any other options.

While it is true that factory jobs have fallen by approximately seven million since 1979, manufacturing output has climbed more than one-fifth since 2006.

Far and Wide leaves us wondering if Peart applies the same demands for empirical proof to bleeding heart government policies.

Why attack the most vulnerable in our society, who benefit enormously from inexpensive imported retail goods?

Thanks to markets, living standards continue to go up globally, although many predicted that the earth was going to run out of resources decades ago. 

The sooner we stop conflating “technology” with “coin,” the sooner we will have a better understanding of what is and is not sound money.

Entrepreneurship can be both productive and unproductive — and even destructive — depending on the effects of public policy.

The new issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is now available online.

Naturally, Fed chairmen claim they are never influenced by politicians who threaten them. But it would by naïve to take this at face value.

The Federal Reserve is not politically independent — and it never was.