City Governments Don’t Care About Housing Affordability
If politicians cared about affordable housing, they'd be doing all they could to repeal regulations and encourage more construction.
Mises Wire
Our Easy-Money Economy Is Not Sustainable
What causes financial crises, domestic and global, is the underlying, continuing credit expansion.
Socialized Medicine Won’t Solve America’s Obesity Problem
The American lifestyle — not the American healthcare system — is likely the biggest factor in lagging American life expectancy.
Happy Birthday Ralph!
Today would have been Ralph Raico's eighty-second birthday. He was a foremost historian of classical liberalism and a leading libertarian theorist.
50 Years of Federal Gun Control: The 1968 Gun Control Act
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Brett Kavanaugh, The Duke Lacrosse Team, and Déjà vu
Politicians never let due process or evidence stand in the way of a declaration of guilt.
William Nordhaus vs. the U.N. on Climate Change Policy
It is the boosters of aggressive government action, such as a carbon tax, who ignore the peer-reviewed research on climate change.
The UN’s Plans for More “Charity” Won’t Solve the World’s Problems
The United Nations has big plans for your tax money.
On “Grievance Studies” and Academic Book Burning
There's a long history of deliberately producing terrible scholarship with the intent of showing how arbitrary, political, and incompetent editors and publishers are.
Purchasing Power and the Exchange Rate
The key factor behind the rate-of-exchange determination is the relative purchasing power of various monies.
