Mises Wire

José Niño

What is particularly scary is that the whole argument for the new law was not really about saving lives or reducing gun violence, but is really about Brussels ordering Switzerland to modify gun laws to comply with EU gun control standards.

William L. Anderson

From crumbling public transport to rampant homelessness, progressive politicians are terrible at running the government once they are in power.

Joseph T. Salerno

The Fed’s monetary policy, except for very brief periods in 1929 and 1936–1937, was consistently and unremittingly inflationist in the 1920s and 1930s.

Gary Galles

Car companies are building in Mexico rather than the United States, largely because it has freer trade than the United States does with the rest of the world.

David Gordon

These books and authors criticize the decision of the United States in 1917 to enter WWI, the bad results of the treaties that ended the war, and the propaganda designed to induce the public to accept the war against the Central Powers.

Lee Friday

The Canadian government wants to force doctors to assist patients with euthanasia. But doctors should be free to refuse service to anyone, and refusal doesn't mean doctors are "blocking access" to healthcare or anything else.

Frank Shostak

What matters is not price rises as such, but the increase in the money supply that sets in motion the exchange of nothing for something or "the counterfeit effect." Business cycles and recessions follow.

Philip Booth

Quite simply, there should be no public policy box marked “broadcasting.”

Chris Calton

The Bolsheviks were shocked to discover the destruction of money failed to bring about the rational economic order that the Communists believed to be inevitable.