Happy Birthday Butler!
Today is the birthday of Butler Shaffer, a pioneer of the libertarian movement and an outstanding legal theorist.
Mises Wire
The Fed Needs Competition, Not Rules
If a monetary rule like the Taylor Rule is not a solution to the problem of the Fed, what is? Competition.
Tom Woods and Shawn Ritenour Discuss The Mises Reader
Shawn Ritenour and Tom Woods discuss The Mises Reader, now available from The Mises Institute.
Beware “Revenue Neutral” Tax Reform
There is a lot of talk about tax reform these days. Not surprisingly, none of it involves cutting spending or lessening government revenue.
Obamacare: Is It Worse Than What Came Before It?
The US economy has been so malformed by interventionist policy, it has become difficult to say how even a policy of repeal might distort markets.
Mexicans Are Blaming “Neoliberalism” for Socialism’s Failures
A state monopoly on the oil industry has been impoverishing Mexicans for decades. Yet, the market is blamed for the economy's woes.
The “Curse” of Labor-Saving Machinery Is Nothing New
Amazon's new cashier-less and staff-less store is just the latest move in a long history of innovations that have made workers obsolete.
What’s the Correct Number of Women Commandos?
The military can't rationally allocate resources because it can't properly determine prices for them.
Taxpayers Footing the Bill for the Inauguration Junkets
The inauguration events are nothing more than pro-government propaganda and fundraising. And, they will cost the taxpayers more than $100 million.
Jeff Sessions’s Drug War May End What’s Left of States’ Rights
The Drug War has become a linchpin in the fight against continued federal centralization of power. Jeff Sessions is on the wrong side of the fight.
