Mises Wire

Since early 2023, full-time jobs have flatlined while part-time jobs have grown. Meanwhile, total number of employed workers has flatlined, too. 

Finding the Money, a video aimed at explaining Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to a pop

Congress claims to have targeted TikTok because China's government allegedly uses it to spy on Americans. Besides dealing with a nonexistent threat, the bill gives the federal government vast new powers to misuse.

Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institute clearly does not like anyone to challenge his pro-war beliefs. In his view, any opposition to the all-powerful American state is opposition to everything good and true.

What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich.

Ryan and Tho are joined by Peter St. Onge, a visiting fellow of the Heritage Foundation, to discuss the state and trajectory of the American economy. 

Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from less valued to more valued uses to satisfy consumer needs.

Many police traffic stops are not about safety or protecting the public. They are about siphoning cash from motorists to state and local governments. 

Washington Post conservative George Will trots out every tired slogan and bromide in the book to claim that Putin is Hitler and the Ukraine war is a fight for civilization. 

The government can end today's high price-inflation rates any time by ending deficit spending. But the state won't even acknowledge deficit spending is a cause of today's price-inflation cycle.