Mises Wire

Mark Thornton discusses Ted Cruz's new tax proposal, flat taxes, and proportional taxes on Newsmax TV.

The Baltimore police now imply Freddie Gray's arrest was necessary because he was carrying an illegal knife. But why are taxpayers paying the government to arrest people for carrying knives? What about the right to bear knives? 

Why haven't people been ferrying goods to Cuba until now? Because any entrepreneur seeking to do such a thing faced heavy fines and even imprisonment under US federal law. 

John P. Cochran, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, expert on the Fed and monetary policy, and co-author (with Fred Glahe) of The Hayek-Keynes Debate: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research, has passed away.

Mises Daily Tuesday by Thibault Schrepel:

Antitrust law is still heavily reliant on notions of perfect competition and other static models of how markets should work. In truth, the dynamism of the marketplace does all that is necessary to prevent the rise of monopolies.

I wish I could say that the recent events in Ba

A new Polish translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's A Theory of Socialism & Capitalism (Teoria socjalizmu i kapitalizmu), is now available here from the Mises Institute of Poland.  (translated by Paweł Nowakowski).

Janet Yellen See Stock Prices Are High, but She Sees no Bubbles

Mises Daily Monday by Matt Palumbo: 

Economists long ago disproved the idea that if the rich get a bigger slice of pie, everyone else’s slice must be getting smaller. In fact, the data continues to show that inequality and growth are not at odds.

Celebrate Star Wars Day: Here Are My Review/Previews of the Prequels. It's All About the Battle of Ideas!