Mises Wire

The history of shadow banking development confirms Mises’s thesis that each government intervention leads to unintended consequences.

Just because some judges agreed with a law in the past doesn't make that law good or moral. 

To keep market share, business owners must respond to increases in consumer demands — even if owners suspect demand is being goosed by money printing.

In order to abolish tuition fees, governments must find other ways to limit costs. These methods are not without their down side. 

Some members of Congress are pushing for new laws to make police a protected group in a way similar to "hate crime" legislation. 

It is unfortunate that a scholar as careful as Robert Skidelsky has chosen to downplay the historical reality of the failure of central banking.

The Vatican's latest document on the financial system calls for a variety of laws and sanctions to stop people from being greedy. 

Mises always maintained that the war for liberty is won or lost on the battlefield of ideas.

Restrained by both ideology and public sentiment, central banks were once kept from the sort of antics they now regularly indulge in.

It takes a lot of verbal acrobatics to conclude that Venezuela's woes are not due to it's extensive implementation of the socialist program.