Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

In June, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 1.98 percent. That was down slightly from May's rate of 2.10 percent, and was well down from June 2018's rate of 4.30 percent.

Ryan McMaken

Rather than pay his campaign workers more out of his personal wealth, Bernie Sanders is cutting employee hours and scaling back campaign events — thus illustrating how minimum wage hikes are a problem for workers.

Mary Lucia Darst

People buy things that reflect their value systems — values learned in homes and other non-market institutions. Meanwhile, markets don't force anyone to buy anything.

Jonathan Newman

People use the marketplace to deliver what others need and want. Environmentalism, on the other hand, is built around denying human needs. 

Hunter Hastings

For centuries, entrepreneurial talents in China were diverted to military wars, political struggles, and government services. But now things are changing.

Frank Shostak

Even if business people learn to expect easy-money caused bubbles and busts — this would still not prevent the formation of a boom-bust cycle. 

Mark Hendrickson

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”

Zachary Yost

Conservatives appear to be increasingly in favor of using the power of the state to force their agenda. But what happens when the state they favor is turned against them?

Mike Gleason

The fact that politicians, central bankers, and “too big to fail” bankers all oppose a gold standard is a tacit admission that hard money would serve as an effective constraint on their activities.

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