Mises Wire

The most alarming of the projections of climate change damages rely on naïve assumptions about human adaptability.

One of the most instructive of all examples from maritime history is that of privateering, that is, the employment of profit-seeking, private armed ships during wartime.

"Here's the problem. If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice."

The vast majority of recorded hate crimes fall into a number of activities that normally fall under misdemeanor or even civil categories. The real and far-more-common threat continues to be regular ol' ordinary violent crime.

Federal labor laws increase monopoly power, reduce competition, and void free association, all in the name of "workers' rights."

The “boom-bust” cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business. 

Socialism and capitalism offer radically different solutions to the problem posed by scarcity.

 A major factor that can explain the apparent contradiction between weakening so-called fundamentals of today — and the stock market's continued march upward — is changes in monetary liquidity.

Anti-capitalists love to claim that consumers don't really have free choice — that advertisers and peers really dictate to others what they should buy. In truth, consumers choose freely, but use others to filter information and simplify the process.

Reformers wanted "higher quality" votes, so they actively sought to reduce voting by urban ethnics and others opposed to the puritanical "pietists" and their progressive successors.