Mises Wire

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Many police departments are over-funded and overstaffed. What other conclusion can we reach?

On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders took to Twitter to criticize bank ATM fees.

One of the more puerile demands made by knee-jerk nationalists is "love it or leave it."

Murray Rothbard dreamed of a fellowship program at the Mises Institute where students could become new Austrian scholars. In the twenty years since Rothbard’s death, the Mises Institute has worked with hundreds of young academics to build a new generation of Austrians.

Like the Greenspan Fed before it, the Yellen Fed has doubled down on easy money, but will trigger a crisis once it tries to inch toward more normal interest rates.

"... this time a hundred years ago was the eve of the beginning of the great slaughters of the twentieth century..."

As homicide rates have declined in the US the past 20 years, and gun-related homicides with them, gun-control advocates have attempted to create a new category of "gun violence" by blaming suicides on access to guns.

In his book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, Philip Mirowski correctly diagnoses many problems with neoclassical economics. The reader soon notices, however, that Mirowski doesn't know the difference between Austrian economists and neoliberals.

The Obama Administration is planning new gun restrictions to be implemented by executive order.