Mises Wire

Government licensing hurts employment, reduces competition — and thus quality — and serves to line the pockets of the established firms who benefit.

Democratic governors are implementing their own versions of net neutrality.

Big banks like Deutsche Bank have the potential to take an entire economy hostage: When they get into trouble, they can drag everything down with them.

The big-business-connected creators of Social Security sought to use the system to punish their competitors in the small-business sector. 

Recent media coverage suggests more government spending and more government control is the only "solution" to rising suicide rates in America.  

The Colorado constitution mandates voter approval of tax increases, and controls spending growth. If only we had something similar for the feds.

The prices of goods are not set mechanically by some kind of supply-demand curves but by the goal-seeking choices of individuals.

The EU’s precariousness will only be fully exposed by the next credit crisis and the ECB’s response to it, which will end up collapsing the euro.

Once it is understood that profits and losses evolve from the changing values of consumers, it becomes obvious that abolishing windfall profits or windfall losses is impossible.

These three books can open up a deeper understanding of war, drugs, and human society in general.