Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

I taught college-level political science for eight years, and it always amazed me how textbooks and instructional materials in the discipline almost completely ignored the existence of the Federal Reserve or central banks of any kind.

Ryan McMaken

Americans have long been taught that government judges, including the supreme court, are limited in their interpretations by some sort of metaphysi

Joseph T. Salerno

Before Pope Francis speaks another word about global warming, he should familiarize himself with these two charts.

Michel Accad, MD

Government has been meddling in health care for over 100 years, and the latest health care reform is just the latest effort that will result in more expensive health care.

Mises Institute

In spite of past assurances to the contrary, our central planners at the Federal Reserve emerged this week to announce that their zero-interest-rate policy will continue. Is the world coming to realize that the emperors have no clothes?

Gabriel Openshaw

When we adjust for the cost of living, we find that more economically free states in the US are richer, happier, and endure less poverty than the high-tax highly regulated states. Consequently, many people continue to move from less-free states to more-free states.