Mises Wire

Ryan and Tho are joined by Peter St. Onge, a visiting fellow of the Heritage Foundation, to discuss the state and trajectory of the American economy. 

Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from less valued to more valued uses to satisfy consumer needs.

Many police traffic stops are not about safety or protecting the public. They are about siphoning cash from motorists to state and local governments. 

Washington Post conservative George Will trots out every tired slogan and bromide in the book to claim that Putin is Hitler and the Ukraine war is a fight for civilization. 

The government can end today's high price-inflation rates any time by ending deficit spending. But the state won't even acknowledge deficit spending is a cause of today's price-inflation cycle. 

Animal control officers are supposed to, well, control animals in a municipal area. But thanks to animal control policies, it's the stray animals that are in control of our author’s town.

While these students are right to oppose the horrific Israeli attacks on Gaza, many of the protests reflect leftist groupthink and typical higher education collectivism.

Although mainstream economists hold that Adam Smith is the father of modern economics, it was Richard Cantillon that recognized the centrality of entrepreneurship in economic development. 

The enemies of individual liberty are numerous, from leftists who see freedom as interfering with the “positive freedoms” offered by the state to conservatives that believe too much freedom destroys community relationships. 

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