What’s Next for Brazil’s “New Right”?
Brazil's new president has made many statements favorable to many pro-market reforms. But will he focus on economic reforms or the social conservatism favored by many of his supporters?
Mises Wire
Who Conserves Our Resources?
Conservation will take place where individuals are allowed to seek solutions. Necessity is the mother not only of invention but of conservation as well.
The Many Ways Governments Create Monopolies
Most major sectors in the US economy have been distorted by government policies pushing monopolies and limiting competition.
San Francisco’s Wealthy Leftists Are Making Homelessness Worse
San Francisco’s public defecation problem is a symptom of its homelessness problem — a problem made far worse by government housing regulations.
Abenomics: Fool Me Once
There's only one way to fund a new public-works project or "stimulus" scheme: through money stolen from the taxpayers.
How Private Banks Create Bubbles — with the Help of Central Banks
Recessions emerge when the central bank reverses its loose monetary stance. But the seeds of recession were sown earlier by private lending practices that grew out of central-bank money creation.
The Fed Is Now Addicted to Easy-Money Policy
The only way to end the booms and busts brought by inflationary credit is to eliminate the central bank's counterfeiting that constitutes and creates that inflation.
5 Ways a Wealth Tax Is At Least as Bad as an Income Tax
As the wage-earning population grows smaller as a proportion of the population, get ready for calls for "wealth taxes" which can keep the taxes coming in even as total wage incomes fall.
Free Will and the Market Place
If the laws of economics are either unknown or not heeded, the inevitable penalty will be an economy of scarcity and poverty.
Let There Be Light: The Documentary the Army Suppressed
The US Army commissioned a propaganda film on recovering veterans. But the Army nixed the program after the film ended up showcasing the horrors of war.
