Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken
Governor Terry McAuliffe likes to use made-up numbers about "gun violence."
Jonathan Newman

If education and career skills are what you want, a college or university may be a waste of your time and money.

C.Jay Engel

The FOMC concluded their June policy meeting today and announced, among other things, their interest rate decision: another .25% rate hike.

Ryan McMaken
Almost everyone agrees that infrastructure spending is always a slam dunk for the economy. Unfortunately, they're often wrong.
Mises Institute
Jeff joins John O'Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld to discuss the health of the US economy.
Tho Bishop
Hopefully Steve Baker will prove to be a great asset for the UK in its divorce from Jean-Claude Juncker and the bureaucracy in Brussels.
Theodore Dalrymple
In this review of two new books on social class, Theordore Dalrymple examines some of the realities that frustrate the efforts of the egalitarians.
Stephan F. Gohmann
US airlines and their workers are motivated to get the government to protect them as a special interest group at a cost to consumers as a whole.
Tim Haffner
A crony-capitalist, semi-privatized war in Afghanistan, may be cheaper — but it's still an unwarranted occupation financed by taxpayers.
Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt's critique of Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax remains relevant as libertarians continue to embrace Universal Basic Income.