Mises Wire

Walter Block

Do not blackmailers, well, blackmail people? And what could be worse? Blackmailers prey on people's dark, hidden secrets. They threaten to expose and publicize them. They bleed their victims and often drive them to suicide. We will find, however, that the case against the blackmailer cannot stand serious analysis

Ryan McMaken

It’s great to see that mises.org and The Austrian contributor James Bovard has joined the Board of Contributors of USA Today

Timothy D. Terrell

Economist Jeffrey Sachs is complaining that some new drugs cost "too much." But after we sift through all the intellectual property rules, the FDA regs, and the government subsidies, it's impossible to guess what a "correct" price for the drugs might be.

Ryan McMaken

In this CNBC video, Ron Paul notes that almost all economists consider price manipula

Mark Tovey

In 1925, Winston Churchill, in spite of massive wartime inflation of the pound sterling, restored the gold standard at the old pre-war exchange rate. This set off a chain of events that led to the 1929 crash in America, and the rise of Keynesianism.

Gary Galles

One of the trickiest needles for libertarians to thread in public policy discussions is what I call the rudeness

Ryan McMaken

Both the left wing and right wing in the United States today use nullification as a tactic against federal law, even though nullification is clearly illegal according to modern legal interpretations. Nullification isn’t a legal tactic, though. It’s a political one.

Ryan McMaken

The Colorado Appeals Court ruled that the owners of a bakery do not have any right to control their property, and that they shall be forced to provide bakery services to a couple that the owner would rather not do business with. In other words, they have no property rights.