Mises Wire

How ironic that Pompeo and the rest of the neocons in the Trump administration are ready to violate the US Constitution in order to attack Venezuela to “restore their constitution.”

Maybe the fact that both homicides and violent crime overall have nearly halved over the past 20 years is a reason school officials show little interest in taking practical steps toward on-site security.

Los Angeles city bureaucrats want fewer cars on the streets. Unfortunately, their plans have side effects which endanger human life and safety.

John Quiggin's hit piece on Henry Hazlitt, Economics In Two Lessons, is just a run-of-the-mill center-left essay on how we need more government intervention.

Help us distribute Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson to thousands of young people all across the country.

Financial markets are neither perfectly efficient, nor animally spirited, but eventually adjusting.

The real money-creating machines are commercial banks. Loan dollars become deposit dollars. Lots of lending means the money aggregates increase. Little lending means the opposite.

You don’t make people better off by artificially making energy more expensive. You only make them poorer.

The number of jobs that require an occupational license now covers 30% of the US workforce, up from 5% in 1950.

Economic theory must have only one purpose — to explain economic activity. However, statistical methods are of no help in this regard.