Mises Wire

Paul Krugman is now claiming the fact the US is not a 100% free-market economy justifies ever-higher taxes on "the rich."

From unemployment, to immigration, to banking, many of Angela Merkel's policies have planted ticking time bombs in the German economy and in German politics.

If we all still lived like cavemen, we'd have hardly any inequality at all. But that's not exactly something to aspire to.

The deadline is drawing near for students to submit a proposal to present their papers to the ASSC 2019.

Marginal tax rates in the 1950s and 1960s don't reflect how much wealthy taxpayers actually paid in taxes. They paid far less than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks.

Federal workers are paid so much more (17 percent more) than private sector workers, they could lose almost nine weeks of pay, never receive back pay, and still be better paid than their private-sector colleagues.

There is no such a thing as insufficient demand as such. An individual’s demand is constrained by his or her ability to produce goods.

There is no evidence that the TSA makes air travel safer, but the federalization of airport security in 2002 has made airport security more fragile and unmanageable in the face of a government "shutdown."

As decades pass since the fall of the USSR, romanticism is replacing the bitter facts of the lives people in communist regimes were forced to live

The Gilded Age's enormous gains in incomes and standards of living showed what individuals were capable of creating when the government was shackled.