Mises Wire

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.

Hayek was right when he said if we want to maintain a free society, we have to take the money monopoly away from the government. 

The term "cultural Marxism" has been in circulation for over forty years and describes an indentifiable intellectual movement.

The US government once destroyed an entire industry because an anti-drug bureaucrat was too ignorant to understand the difference between hemp and marijuana.