Mises Wire

Here's how to tell the Austrian approach on money apart from the views of other schools of thought.

“Corruption is a regular effect of interventionism,” Ludwig von Mises once wrote, and we see this principle at work today in the European Union.

In order to confuse matters, much of the true debt incurred by the federal government each year is simply declared to not be part of the deficit.

A just society is not some game of chess where we can move around each person like they exist to carry out the goals of "the people."

European bureaucrats thinks tax rates should be similar across the zone. But they naturally want all tax rates to "harmonize" at high rates, like those in France.

The average California state government worker earns 23 percent more in total compensation than their similarly skilled and educated private-sector counterpart.

Money supply growth inched upward again in June this year, but remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016.

Calls for finding efficiencies in government by electing or appointing people to “run it like a business” are futile.

Deflation can never repair the damage of a prior inflation. It would be like running someone over with a car, and then trying to fix the situation by backing up over the person again.

Instead of Medicare for All, the plan should be called “VA Care for All,” with the increase in preventable deaths that comes with it.