Mises Wire

In terms of economics, there isn‘t much daylight at all between a tax-funded “private” contractor and a federal employee who works directly for a government agency.

Despite the government‘s efforts to prop up real estate prices, the markets are having the last word. Commercial real estate is especially vulnerable to the latest trends.

The bloodletting at the Department of Justice and the FBI has begun, and the mainstream media is portraying the purged agents as victims of a lawless Trump administration. But these agencies have been lawless for years and someone needs to bring them to heel.

There is truth, and then there is government truth. Unfortunately, today‘s ruling class wants us to believe that government (or at least government run by elites) is the source of truth, and not to believe our lying eyes.

The real class conflict is not between the capitalists and the workers. The real conflict is between the productive taxpayer class, and the parasite government class which exploits everyone else.

Recent comments from JD Vance and Pete Hegseth brought the relationship between the US and its allies in Europe into the spotlight. The unfortunate truth is that most of Europe is deep in a self-imposed decline. US taxpayers should not be forced to have any part of it.

Our friends at Grove City College have accomplished an incredible feat, digitizing their archive of Ludwig von Mises’s personal papers.

Isaac Newton is best known for his development of mathematics and physics, but he also took a keen interest in economics, especially the relationship of money to economic exchange. He also believed that economic laws, like gravity, were immutable.

America’s residential mortgage market is mostly controlled by government. Ryan McMaken and Alex Pollock talk about how government corporations like Fannie Mae are fueling America’s housing affordability crisis. 

Both Trump and Lincoln treat a group of people as lepers—i.e., Palestinians and blacks—who should be removed from society and denied property rights in their own country.