Mises Wire

Jonathan Newman

Nevada has ruled that online fantasy sports are subject to gambling license laws in the state. The reason for the ruling is painfully clear: to suppress competition with the big casinos in the state.

Hunter Lewis

There is a close connection between the three.

Mises Institute

It was a big week for Bernie Sanders's brand of socialism, and millions of Americans already agree with him. Thanks to unquestioning acceptance of wild claims about the success of socialism in Europe, many Americans are now wishing for some European-style socialism themselves.

David Gordon

Irwin Schiff, imprisoned for his resistance to the federal income tax, died yesterday.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Nordic countries prospered in spite of the Scandinavian model, not because of it.

Ryan McMaken

In this week’s debate, Bernie Sanders claimed that the United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty.

Jeff Deist

Because conservatives are only nominally less statist than today’s progressives, socialist policies that would have sounded outrageous to many Americans 100 years ago are now the baseline for the modern American political mind. Bernie Sanders is capitalizing on this reality.

Joseph T. Salerno
Well, at least one of the candidates vying for the Republican or Democratic presidential nomination appears to have a reasonable grasp of current economic reality and the complicity of the Federal Reserve in exacerbating an impending financial disaster.
Ryan McMaken

The “true money supply” measure is a measure of the money supply pioneered by Murray Rothbard and Joseph Salerno and is designed to pro

Allen Mendenhall

Privatizing garbage collection isn't exactly a tough nut to crack from the perspective of entrepreneurs and economic theory. But that doesn't stop government from mandating a government monopoly on trash collection in many places.