Mises Wire

Murray N. Rothbard
Decree that no violence may be initiated against another man, and all the loopholes for tyranny would be swept away.
Ron Paul
Anyone traveling with "too much" cash runs the risk of having it stolen by a police officer.
Ilana Mercer
Anti-Federalist philosophical fathers fought to forestall the inevitable. For that we must salute them.

The Swiss love of privacy and sound economics has endured for centuries. But global trends continue to chip away at these venerable traditions.

Brian Garst
MacLean's hit piece on "radical" libertarians uses the usual tactics: spinning complex conspiracy theories to "prove" the racism of political enemies.
Douglas French

Fannie and Freddie are rushing to finance the current rental boom, and package them as mortgage-backed securities. What could go wrong?

Murray N. Rothbard
Not all human action is truly voluntary in the marketplace. Violence can be used to distort and force a wide variety of relationship among human beings.
Ryan McMaken
Governments and police departments often benefit more from arresting small-time non-violent offenders than by prosecuting truly violent ones.
Ryan McMaken
Repealing the 17th Amendment has its upside, but a simple repeal doesn't go nearly far enough.
Kel Kelly
When tax cuts lay the ground work for a better economy, government statistics often fail to measure the benefits.