Mises Wire

Today is the birthday of Butler Shaffer, a pioneer of the libertarian movement and an outstanding legal theorist.

A state monopoly on the oil industry has been impoverishing Mexicans for decades. Yet, the market is blamed for the economy's woes.

The US economy has been so malformed by interventionist policy, it has become difficult to say how even a policy of repeal might distort markets.

The Drug War has become a linchpin in the fight against continued federal centralization of power. Jeff Sessions is on the wrong side of the fight.

The inauguration events are nothing more than pro-government propaganda and fundraising. And, they will cost the taxpayers more than $100 million.

Amazon's new cashier-less and staff-less store is just the latest move in a long history of innovations that have made workers obsolete.

The military can't rationally allocate resources because it can't properly determine prices for them.

"Bugatti capitalism," typified by hyper-inventiveness and cutting-edge technological prowess that changed the course of Italian industry.

George Monbiot of Britain's Guardian newspaper seems to think that Mises is indeed the progenitor of today's crony capitalism and more.

With 2017 now upon us, we are moving toward the hundredth anniversary of direct American intervention into the Great War in April 1917.