Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

Spurred by 9 years of easy money, US household debt is back to peak levels not seen since 2008.

Ryan McMaken
Violent crime is already illegal in all 50 states under state laws. The last thing we need is a new wave of federal prosecutions of non-violent people.
Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Marx's original thinking amounted to nothing more than equivocal statements, half-baked arguments, and crude claims unsupported by any empirical facts.

Ryan McMaken

A look at the world's largest central banks suggests there's no appetite for anything that resembles quantitative tightening.

Per Bylund
Practice and theory are often seen as being distinct and in conflict with each other. But, hands-on entrepreneurs can learn a lot from economic theory.
David Gordon
Cato's Brink Lindsey says we can't evaluate complete laissez-faire because it does not exist; but he somehow "knows" government intervention is better.
Mark Thornton
The Vermont state legislature has voted to legalize recreational marijuana use. This is a first, since other states have relied on statewide votes.
Alasdair Macleod
The UK is in a much better negotiating position than the EU, and the EU knows it.
Murray N. Rothbard
If inflation is the health of the State, how and in what way has government generated inflation in the history of the United States?
Ryan McMaken
Fire departments rarely fight fires anymore, but you wouldn't know it the way department salaries are soaring.