Mises Wire

Andrew Syrios

Determining just how privileged you are, can be a confusing matter. After all, according to the current narrative, a white woman is privileged by her race and oppressed by her gender. And it gets even more complicated from there.

David Gordon

Randolph Bourne was too much the populist for Sunstein who believed "the people" must be guided by experts, because people are too bewildered by the complexities of it all to be able to choose rationally for themselves.

Hal Snarr

The unintended consequences of government regulation lead to even more government coercion.

Ryan McMaken

Money supply growth rose in August, rising to the highest rate recorded since March of this year.

Thorsten Polleit

In its blind search for the "correct" interest-rate policy, the Fed can't succeed in extending the boom indefinitely.

James Ketler

The government wants you to save less and spend more. And the IRS wants a bigger piece of your wealth.

Ryan McMaken

Homicide rates in the US remain well below where they were 25 years ago, and stubbornly high homicide rates are a regional — and not a national — problem.

T. Norman Van Cott

When people change cities, they are likely to change their consumption patterns — which means a simple cost-of-living index doesn't tell us what it should.

James Bovard

The Court’s betrayal of its constitutional role has vastly increased the stakes for the current and any future Justice nomination.

Chris Calton

Reagan's rhetoric on freedom and free markets was excellent. The policies he supported as president weren't nearly as great.