Mises Wire

Thanks to government meddling, we all pay more for sugar to benefit a few powerful interest groups.

Monopolies and cartels are creations of government, not markets.

Iceland's populist left-anarchist/libertarian/hacker Pirate party just shook up the corrupt political establishment in Iceland.

The courts have long sided with the Feds in refusing to enforce gold clauses in private contracts. State governments can undo some of this damage.

Higher education degrees no longer hold any value for employers.

Free lunches are not really free, even to those who vote for them. There are other reasons to vote against getting "free stuff," too.

Inferno features a Malthusian villain set on halving the world's population out of overpopulation fears. Let us unpack this myth.

The OECD has updated it's income measures, and we find that many European welfare states still rank among the lowest-income US states.

As public faith in elections falls, and politicians foist an ever greater burden on us, a true populist opposition movement may be growing.

As free-floating fiat money, the major currencies of the world are locked in a complex game of relative devaluation and manipulation.