Mises Wire

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.

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.

The answer to why people continue to work in such deplorable conditions is pretty simple: they don’t have any other options.

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

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.

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