Mises Wire

New FDA regulations — like most crony capitalist regs — will help large established businesses while hurting smaller ones.

With the American state broke and deeply in debt, it is just a matter of time until nuclear proliferation spreads to Japan, Germany, and South Korea.

Allow discrimination for anybody for any reason so that those who discriminate for the "wrong" reasons are naturally removed from the market.

No one prints dollars on the purely free market because there are, in fact, no dollars; there are only commodities, such as wheat, cars, and gold.

If the FTC really cared about the harmful effects of hidden sponsorships and fraudulent goods, it would spend all its time investigating government.

We should rewrite our textbook accounts to include the possibility of credit preceding a common medium of exchange and call it inter-temporal barter.

Our monetary system encourages debt and punishes saving. It also benefits those who already have money at the expense of those who do not.

When police are trained to regard the citizens as military opponents, bad things happen.

As expected, this week's political convention failed to offer any real solutions to the problems we face.

Even if consumer protection regulation is motivated by good intentions, it inevitably undermines competition and consumer welfare.