Mises Wire

Live broadcast of Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, William Boyes, and Charles Goyette in Phoenix, Arizona.

There were many state and local elections in the US this week, but few of them will result in anything that will combat widely held and popular errors about central banking, drug prohibition, and the global environment.

The OECD released new life expectancy data this week. The agency then blamed the US's slightly lower numbers on not enough government spending on health care. This rather oversimplifies the matter, to say the least.

Farmers have been using monkeys to harvest coconuts in Thailand for hundreds of years. But now, animal rights activists have decided that these farmers should have their livelihoods destroyed in order to save the monkeys from "slavery".

Somewhere along the line, Americans (and possibly others) began to suffer from the idea that starting a business and serving customers involves taking something out of the community.

Samuel Moyn, a distinguished intellectual historian, argues that both Catholics and Protestants began in the 1930s to defend human rights and dignity, giving these ideas a conservative interpretation.

Americans and Europeans redistribute a lot of wealth. But that doesn't mean it goes from high-income people to low-income people. In fact, a lot of government money goes back to the income groups that it came from. After the government takes its cut.

"Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of deaths from motor vehicle accidents and firearms."

The World Health Organization has declared that eating meat will kill you. But the WHO's war on meat is not really about your health. It's about "saving the planet" from the latest industry that has been deemed "unsustainable" by global elites.