Mises Wire

Just because some judges agreed with a law in the past doesn't make that law good or moral. 

To keep market share, business owners must respond to increases in consumer demands — even if owners suspect demand is being goosed by money printing.

The Vatican's latest document on the financial system calls for a variety of laws and sanctions to stop people from being greedy. 

Mises always maintained that the war for liberty is won or lost on the battlefield of ideas.

Some members of Congress are pushing for new laws to make police a protected group in a way similar to "hate crime" legislation. 

It is unfortunate that a scholar as careful as Robert Skidelsky has chosen to downplay the historical reality of the failure of central banking.

The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics. It is more rampant now than at any time in the past.

Restrained by both ideology and public sentiment, central banks were once kept from the sort of antics they now regularly indulge in.

It takes a lot of verbal acrobatics to conclude that Venezuela's woes are not due to it's extensive implementation of the socialist program. 

 What if there was another form of democracy right under our noses that allowed voting 24 hours a day, seven days a week?