Mises Wire

For example: Nonviable babies who die quickly after birth are recorded as live births in the U.S., but are more likely to be classified as stillbirths in other countries.

Private entrepreneurs have solved many environmental problems by finding ways to turn garbage into something people were willing to pay for.

Bad ideas can spread more quickly than good ones, often because they sound so good until you spend some time thinking about them.

There were three important victories related to cannabis, i.e., marijuana, legalization and only the most radical measure failed.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

In a way, the separation of the Czechs and Slovaks was like Brexit and the UK’s 1980s privatizations combined, only a lot more complicated.

It's true that JFK would feel at home in the modern GOP. But that's because the GOP has stopped even pretending to want significant cuts to government spending.

Gustavus Swift liberated people from a diet of salt pork by figuring out how to ship refrigerated beef.

Clearly, the proposal for increased usage of E15 is a government subsidy to corn growers and the ethanol industry.

The state is not "us." Even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.