Mises Wire

The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits.

The island nation of Jamaica has the potential to be an economic powerhouse, but, instead, the government wishes to pursue a self-defeating policy of demanding “reparations” from Great Britain and other western nations.

Ludwig von Mises favored liberalism, which was based upon the equality of each person before the law. Today, elites are seeking a regime in which the law is written and enforced to favor one group over another.

The costs of war are vast and horrific. Most people know this, which raises the question of why the US government seemingly can’t live without it.

Most economists believe that a growing economy needs a growing supply of money. While sounding like a common-sense idea, it turns out to be dreadfully wrong.

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.

Murray Rothbard wrote many years ago that government regulation, ostensibly created to protect consumers, actually protects incumbent producers from competition. Decades later, nothing has changed.

Everyone loves to have time off, but what happens when governments force people not to work against their will?

The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution has been the basis of numerous Supreme Court decisions, yet there is a compelling case for its never having been legally ratified. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines those claims.