Mises Wire

Recent defeats for left-wing governments in Latin America are a good thing, but the region has a long way to go in embracing free markets.

There is nothing wrong with living with your parents, but not since the Great Depression have there been so many returning to the nest.

Barbering offered a living wage to many Italian-Americans and blacks during the 19th century. Thus, a labor union stepped in to put an end to that.

Mises called Hazlitt "the economic conscience of our country and of our nation."

Today's paper money does not have value due to some government decree. It's value as money is based on a past connection to commodity money.

The War on Gambling is about as moral as the War on Drugs.

Political globalization and the US's current foreign policy are facing real obstacles in a Donald Trump administration.

Now in mailboxes, the year-end issue of The Austrian is also now online.

The real question about immigration is not whether borders are open or restricted, but rather who decides?

If we had to sum up economics in ten fundamental laws, here are ten we would choose.