Mises Wire

Maybe the best thing we can do then is to let ourselves be guided by Bastiat's saying: "The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended."

The Federal government likes to play both sides of the environmentalism debate in order to increase its own power.

"Coffee and milk became luxuries years ago, but the scary scarcity — of things like bread — have hit my middle-class home."

Rothbard, far more than his Beltway critics, understood the practical necessity of working with diverse people on an issue by issue basis.

The view seems to be that if a higher minimum wage is mandated that employers will continue to make all of the same hiring decisions. Not true.

Rothbard saw the State as a gang of robbers. It by no means followed from this, though, that he was uninterested in politics.

Labor productivity in the US is experiencing the worst trend seen since the late 1970s.

Coca-Cola still uses components of the cocaine-producing coca leaf in its production today in a partnership with big pharma and government cronies.

The Olympics is one big party for politically-connected millionaires and other "elites" at the expense of ordinary taxpayers.

If we drive factories in developing countries out of business because they're "sweatshops," we condemn the workers to even greater poverty.