Mises Wire

Harris promises to reduce prices by printing more money, reducing competition, and attacking businesses. Welcome to the US version of Argentina's “Peronism.”

A recurring myth among progressives is that the state can enforce "fairness." However, given that government cannot even effectively define fairness, one doubts that the state can "enforce" what it doesn't know.

From 1949 to 1962, American libertarian R.C. Hoiles and Ludwig von Mises corresponded many times, discussing issues relating to state power. While the correspondence at times was acrimonious, nonetheless, it offered valuable insight into the issues we still face.

The Fed promises a soft landing, but the fact that the Fed now plans to start cutting interest rates is one of the strongest recession signals we can get.

While Kamala Harris has not said much about her proposals for US foreign policy, her associations and likely appointments speak very loudly for the continuation of promoting international conflict and domestic surveillance against dissent.

David Gordon reviews J.W. Rich's new book, Praxeological Ethics: An Inquiry into the Nature and Foundation of Ethics and finds much to like about this volume.

With the US government engaged in out-of-control spending, we are looking at tax increases in the coming years. And even if Congress does not pass official tax hikes, we will see the government seizing wealth via inflation.

While Donald Trump is trying to appeal to homeschooling families with his Agenda 47 plan, the reality is that by offering tax breaks and subsidies, the federal government ultimately will be able to regulate homeschooling, and federal control will ruin homeschooling as we know it.

The Nigerian government has passed a new minimum wage law, and the usual suspects are happy because the country "is getting a raise." Economic reality, however, will set in soon enough as people find that government edicts do not create wealth.

Although John Kenneth Galbraith promoted socialism and Keynesianism, at least he was an entertaining writer. His book, The Great Crash, 1929, provides a readable history of the stock market crash that helped bring on the Great Depression.