Mises Wire

Many police departments are over-funded and overstaffed. What other conclusion can we reach?

. . . as presented in four entertaining slides.

Murray Rothbard dreamed of a fellowship program at the Mises Institute where students could become new Austrian scholars. In the twenty years since Rothbard’s death, the Mises Institute has worked with hundreds of young academics to build a new generation of Austrians.

As homicide rates have declined in the US the past 20 years, and gun-related homicides with them, gun-control advocates have attempted to create a new category of "gun violence" by blaming suicides on access to guns.

"... this time a hundred years ago was the eve of the beginning of the great slaughters of the twentieth century..."

Like the Greenspan Fed before it, the Yellen Fed has doubled down on easy money, but will trigger a crisis once it tries to inch toward more normal interest rates.

When you own 28 percent of all the land — 640 million acres — in the United States, you're likely to end up with some neighbors who don't care for how you do business.

Senator Rand Paul published an op-ed on Business Insider this past Sunday attacking the easy money policy of the Bernanke-Yellen Federal Reserve and continuing his call for a full audit of the central bank.

The Obama Administration is planning new gun restrictions to be implemented by executive order.

In his book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, Philip Mirowski correctly diagnoses many problems with neoclassical economics. The reader soon notices, however, that Mirowski doesn't know the difference between Austrian economists and neoliberals.