Mises Wire

The great free-market classical liberal William Leggett believed that Americans do not need politicians telling us on which days Americans ought to be thankful.

Trump is apparently oblivious to the societal train wrecks that protectionist tariffs have caused throughout American history.

Rent control always results in housing shortages and deteriorating housing stock. Governments and activists, unfortunately, never learn any lessons.

Even though the Supreme Court supposedly banned affirmative action for college admissions, federal law still requires certain outcomes with regards to race, sex, and other characteristics. Federal authorities still want affirmative action to be brought in the back door.

Thanks to unrelenting propaganda from the establishment media, a large number of Americans are suffering from what is diagnosed as “climate anxiety.” 

Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the other hand, said as long as gold is money and there is no fiduciary media, such a scenario was not possible.

Bob discusses common talking points that pro-free-trade economists often use when making the case against tariffs.

By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by state-directed outcomes. However, government programs have made things much worse.

Now threatening citizens for what they post online, one would hardly believe that England had once possessed a hard-won tradition of limited government and natural rights. 

Commercial real estate in the US faces major problems despite efforts by the Federal Reserve System to prop it up. Bonds used to finance commercial real estate markets are being hit especially hard, and there is no relief in sight.