Mises Wire

While her record is hardly perfect, Judy Shelton has been a rarity among monetary economists: an advocate for gold and sound money.

The estimated unfunded Social Security and Medicare liability is $175.3 trillion. If you think that will be financed with taxes “on the rich,” you have a problem with basic math.

Mark Thornton shares several ways we can fight the Fed's price inflation. 

Government schooling advocates are demanding that homeschoolers be regulated by public school authorities. Perhaps homeschooling advocates should be monitoring the government.

Contra critical theorists, who claim human reason is nothing more than a social construct, reason is both understandable and universal. We cannot abandon it, for if we do, we abandon liberty itself.

Professor Garett Jones joins Bob to discuss his book, detailing the impact that immigrants' culture has on the institutions of their new home.

Milton Friedman’s commitment to statistical analysis led him vehemently to oppose the economics of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, whom he regarded as the purveyors of a priori, “unscientific” theorizing.

We are seeing Joseph Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction at work in higher education. The shake-up will continue.

Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz believes that the path to freedom is . . . less freedom. Of course, he doesn’t package his advocacy of socialism as the diminishing of freedom but rather as expanding freedom by restraining economic freedom.

Supporters of the new California minimum wage law for fast-food restaurants claim it will bolster economic opportunity for lower-income people. It actually will be a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.