Mises Wire

Tho Bishop

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

Ryan McMaken

Regulation of immigrants was almost exclusively the domain of state governments during the first 100 years of the United States. Many doubted if federal involvement was Constitutional.

Andrew Moran

While it is true that factory jobs have fallen by approximately seven million since 1979, manufacturing output has climbed more than one-fifth since 2006.

Jonathan Newman

Thanks to markets, living standards continue to go up globally, although many predicted that the earth was going to run out of resources decades ago. 

William Poole

Why attack the most vulnerable in our society, who benefit enormously from inexpensive imported retail goods?

Jeff Deist

Far and Wide leaves us wondering if Peart applies the same demands for empirical proof to bleeding heart government policies.

John R. Skar

The sooner we stop conflating “technology” with “coin,” the sooner we will have a better understanding of what is and is not sound money.

Frank Shostak

The Fed's policy of price stability, as in the 1920s, may catch economists again unaware of the damage inflicted by this policy.

Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve is not politically independent — and it never was.

Ryan McMaken

Naturally, Fed chairmen claim they are never influenced by politicians who threaten them. But it would by naïve to take this at face value.