Big Government

Less Marx, More Mises? Helio Beltrão explains what's going on in Brazil.

The port city Gloucester Massachusetts Chief of Police announced that he was no longer going to arrest hard drug addicts and that indeed his police force would now work to help drug addicts get help

Law professor and bureaucrat Cass Sunstein makes the case for what he calls "Libertarian Paternalism" in his new book Why Nudge? The problem, David Gordon explains, is that Sunstein's plan assumes rationality and good faith among the government agents who do the "nudging."

How the war on drugs actually brings about less security and stability in the Western Hemisphere

The data shows that many Greek workers work for long hours, and some labor data suggests the Greek economy must be fine. But a closer look shows that hard work isn't enough when many others live off the productivity of the working few.

Connecticut has introduced a new death tax. But for some reason, a blatant cash grab like this is never "greed" when a government uses violence to seize wealth. It's only greed when private sector actors want more money.

Modern health "insurance" is really just a wealth-transfer scheme that now ignores risk and true costs.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2015.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2015.