Mises Wire

For Mises "human society is thus spiritual and teleological," the "product of thought and will."

The cronyism on display at the Brazil Olympics seems almost harmless compared to the chaos in far-more-socialist Venezuela. 

If Brazil truly is "the country of the future," it will be due to it embracing the ideas of Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard.

The key to economic growth is not optimism or good "animal spirits." They key is increased productivity and wealth accumulation.

Police departments are upset that new freedom-expanding laws are making their jobs less lucrative. 

Delving further into the jobs report, we see that many of the jobs that were supposedly created were jobs in government.

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.