Mises Wire

An expanded version for The New American of my recent article on the Flat Tax is no

For months Alex Tabarrok has being doing a great job yelling to all the world that this “credit crunch” is bogus.

Three economists for the Minneapolis Fed have written a paper called “Myths about the

[From a talk given to a Memphis-area discussion group on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.]

In another thread here, a commentor asks, “What, exactly, is un-libertarian about “loser pa

I’m really enjoying John Stossel’s Guide to Politics.

Jacob Weisberg explains how stupid libertarians are for not recognizing the meltdown as a failure of “unregulated markets.”

During the fury and carnage of World War I, little thought was given to two shots fired from a small pistol on a leafy suburban street in Sarajevo

This monograph addresses a critically important issue: the prevailing view that deflation (falling prices and/or falling money stock) is a catastrophe that must be stopped.

Every monetary crisis in US history has given rise to a movement of money crankism, which is this strange combination of good and often accurate de