Mises Wire

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Politicians never let due process or evidence stand in the way of a declaration of guilt.

It is the boosters of aggressive government action, such as a carbon tax, who ignore the peer-reviewed research on climate change.

The United Nations has big plans for your tax money.

There's a long history of deliberately producing terrible scholarship with the intent of showing how arbitrary, political, and incompetent editors and publishers are.

The key factor behind the rate-of-exchange determination is the relative purchasing power of various monies.

Behavioral economics claims it has shown that people behave irrationally — often make mistakes, and have problems with self-control. But is this really irrational behavior?

The Nobel committee this year showed that it has embraced clever economic modeling as a replacement for scientific progress.

Money spent on "luxuries" goes to support ordinary people who use profits from luxury goods to make a living and support their families.

Blaming the euro will not save Italy. Italy’s problem is political spending — the same problem that this new budget is going to greatly increase.