Mises Wire

To understand the marketplace, it is not necessary to believe in the existence of a selfish, profit-maximizing human.

China has many problems, but it also has a high savings rate, a limited welfare state, and a rising middle class.

The federal government is again trying to take free choice away from borrowers by imposing new regulations on short-term loans like payday lending.

The rejection of CETA by Belgium is a bittersweet affair.

Thanks to tax policy, the South and West are growing much faster than the old baseball heartland in the Northeast.

In New York, hotel industry groups have successfully lobbied to outlaw their competition.

Federal laws against free association of dairy producers has created a deeply distorted and unresponsive market.

A pro-tax disciple of Henry George gave us the board game we know today as Monopoly.

Tollison was one of the most inventive, prolific, and impactful scholars of our generation.

Gas station owners have come up with a creative way to take more of their customers' money via the power of taxation.