Mises Wire

Americans 60 and older have an aggregate $86 billion in student loan debt, rising 161% since 2010.

A society in which [classical] liberal principles are put into effect is usually called a capitalist society, and the condition of that society, capitalism.

Argentina suffers from both high taxes and high rates of tax evasion. These two things are connected. The harder it is to pay taxes, the greater the motivation to evade them.

Conservatives seem to want a "robust" state to replace the cultural, religious, and economic institutions that states destroyed in the first place.

Europe is falling behind North American and China in the tech sector. This is not by chance or bad luck, it is by design.

A federal judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional to only force men to register for the draft. He should have ruled that its unconstitutional for the federal government to enslave anyone for purposes of military service.

It is clear that for the planet to keep up with a rapidly growing population, it is necessary to liberate the global economy. 

The Chinese debt is overwhelming not simply because of the volume, but because the figure has quadrupled in seven years.

The printing press doesn’t create real resources, it only obscures the method by which the government siphons them away from the private sector.

While government spending re-allocates and distorts resources, it is not necessarily inflationary. Inflation really just stems from money creation and fractional-reserve lending carryied out by central banks and private banks — thus creating money "out of thin air."