Mises Wire

I don't want the same people who bring me the IRS and the ATF to be in charge of airport security.

It is a widespread fallacy that skillful advertising can talk the consumers into buying everything that the advertiser wants them to buy.

What is so great about the recently-invented 2-percent goal for inflation? It comes with some serious repercussions.

Since we are now experiencing unprecedented manipulation of markets, it only follows that we're risking an unprecedented collapse.

States are happy with physical cash if they can use technology to make it traceable.

Texas is moving ahead with its plan to build an independent gold storage facility where ordinary people can have accounts.

The Defense Authorization bill should remain notorious. It represents most of what is wrong with Washington.

The more hard-core socialist the system is, the worse its problems.

Some US states are taking steps to offer their residents more freedom in the money they use.

The choice between various ways of ‘measuring’ economic variations (and gauging their causes from these measurements) is arbitrary from an economic point of view, and becomes a largely political endeavor.