Mises Wire

Because the only thing government is worse at than pricing risk, is learning from past mistakes.

What has the Federal Department of Education done for students? The DOE has spent a lot of taxpayer money, but the results are less than impressive.

If you want to ensure that goods and services are plentiful and go to where they are most wanted — do not pass anti-price gouging laws.

Not enacting price controls does not pass the "Do Something" test, yet the best thing politicians can do is sit on their hands.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided yet again today to hold off on raising the target federal funds rate.

Bastiat's broken-window fallacy lives on in Italy where advocates for a new wave of government spending will bring an economic renaissance.

The value of objects can change without any physical change to the object at all. I need only tell you that some junk you see is really art.

Contrary to the common myth, labor unions mean fewer jobs and more competition among workers.

A Wall Street crisis would become a Main Street crisis without quantitative easing, or so the story began in Nov. 2008. Have you seen a recovery?

The NCAA is a powerful taxpayer-subsidized cartel that largely exists to deny the athletes the compensation they would earn in a working marketplace.