Mises Wire

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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