Mises Wire

With far too much time and money on their hands, federal prosecutors have now turned private basketball agreements into a matter for federal criminal prosecution.

Healthcare under the Bernie Sanders plan would be so expansive, centralized, and monolithic as to make the Canadian system look sensible by comparison.

America's healthcare system is now a government-dominated healthcare system. Let's stop pretending it's a market system.

For example: Nonviable babies who die quickly after birth are recorded as live births in the U.S., but are more likely to be classified as stillbirths in other countries.

Private entrepreneurs have solved many environmental problems by finding ways to turn garbage into something people were willing to pay for.

Bad ideas can spread more quickly than good ones, often because they sound so good until you spend some time thinking about them.

There were three important victories related to cannabis, i.e., marijuana, legalization and only the most radical measure failed.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

In a way, the separation of the Czechs and Slovaks was like Brexit and the UK’s 1980s privatizations combined, only a lot more complicated.

It's true that JFK would feel at home in the modern GOP. But that's because the GOP has stopped even pretending to want significant cuts to government spending.