Mises Wire

The US government used foreign aid to spread a eugenics-tinged sterilization policy in Peru in the late 1990s.

What politicians and pundits of the Clinton variety really want is a return to the days of the Era of Consensus of the 1950s and 60s when uncivil opposition was unthinkable.

A big chunk of the voting population relies on taxpayer-funded benefits to pad their incomes. The effects on voting and public policy can't be ignored.

Now untethered from everything except the will of central bankers, international exchange rates  are especially prone to manipulation worldwide.

Gazing at the data cannot assist an analyst in establishing causes in the world of economics.

If politicians cared about affordable housing, they'd be doing all they could to repeal regulations and encourage more construction.

Given that you conservatives love Medicare, which guarantees government health care for seniors, why not love it even more by expanding it to everyone?

What causes financial crises, domestic and global, is the underlying, continuing credit expansion.

The American lifestyle — not the American healthcare system — is likely the biggest factor in lagging American life expectancy.

Today would have been  Ralph Raico's eighty-second birthday. He was a foremost historian of classical liberalism and a leading libertarian theorist.​