Mises Wire

June's job numbers show job growth over the past year has been overwhelmingly in part time jobs, as full-time work and the total number of employed workers has stagnated. 

In our present age, nature conservation is seen as a state-empowered activity. However, only by understanding praxeology can we engage in effective conservation.

The 1866 civil rights law was historical not because it promised racial equality but because it changed the legal relationship between the states and the federal government.

One of the reasons for the hard-left turn in higher education has been the increasing radicalization of accreditation agencies. It is important for colleges and universities to break away from these agencies and rethink the accreditation process.

Economic mythology said governments must regulate markets to prevent monopolies. In reality, it is the government regulation itself that creates monopolies, which do not emerge in free markets.

Issues of immigration are complex. The current system of open borders, detention and expanding access to welfare is destructive to our body politic.  We need to come up with a better system that protects the rights of all.

Elites portray CBDC currency as a helpful high-tech alternative to cash and current electronic money. But CBDCs are really little more than a tool for total state control of the economy. 

With your support, the Mises Institute can send Mises U students home with a stack of Austrian classics. Help our students further their radical education before they have to return to their democratic socialist classrooms!

We have two choices as to what happened at the Trump shooting: law enforcement personnel was either (1) disastrously incompetent or (2) complicit in the assassination attempt. 

When governments seize private firms in the name of nationalization, the moves are usually politically popular. However, it doesn't take long for the nationalized firms to turn into a financial black hole.