Big Government

In his recent appearance on RT, Lew Rockwell discusses the upside of government default.

What is needed is fiscal reform. Only drastically cutting government spending will bring back prosperity.

Peter G. Klein deconstructs the Debt Ceiling.

He builds on his Mises Daily article from this morning.

Mark Thornton discusses the unintended consequences of gun control legislation as an illustration of prohibition economics.

Peter G. Klein explains that the "shutdown" is no shutdown and urges us to reject the economic version of Orwellian doublespeak.

In this week’s The Mises View: Peter G.

Air travelers were outraged when the FAA announced that there would be flight delays because air-traffic controllers had to take furloughs as a result of sequester budget cuts. But there is another federal agency whose budget cuts Americans should be cheering—the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Walking Dead suggests that government does not offer solutions to catastrophic problems but in fact only exacerbate them.

Mark Thornton presents a Misesian commentary on why politics is to blame for the impending U.S. government "shutdown," and how a gold standard could provide real fiscal discipline.