Mises Wire

From growth controls to minimum wage laws, Seattle's government is working hard to cut incomes and increase the cost of living.

There is good reason to study Keynesianism: It helps us understand what the policymakers in government are likely to do in any given circumstance.

Lincoln's disregard for rights of due process was once highly controversial. And the old "we're at war" trick wasn't seen as a convincing excuse. 

There is no truly equal way to distribute goods. But capitalism offers a way for more people to benefit from the process of bidding for those goods and services.

On the 71st Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, let's recall that international wealth redistribution schemes don't work any better than domestic ones. 

So impressive is compensation in the U.S. that even fast food businesses are bidding up wages to compete.

"The greatest fallacy of the classical liberals was their assumption that a constitutionally limited state government was necessary."

There's really no need to do legal gymnastics about religious freedom. A simple respect for property rights solves the problem of forced baking of gay-wedding cakes.

Behind the scenes, the great machine of government churns along, often in complete disregard to the president or his stated policies.

“The heart of my thinking is that language is man-made ... and it is only language that enables human beings to control nature.”