Mises Wire

Antón Chamberlin

If you want to ensure that goods and services are plentiful and go to where they are most wanted — do not pass anti-price gouging laws.

Carol A. Vance Loyd S. Pettegrew

What has the Federal Department of Education done for students? The DOE has spent a lot of taxpayer money, but the results are less than impressive.

Tho Bishop

Because the only thing government is worse at than pricing risk, is learning from past mistakes.

Ryan McMaken

Contrary to the myth that libertarians favor limitless pollution by capitalists, libertarian legal regimes would often put polluters out of business.

Gary Galles

Contrary to the common myth, labor unions mean fewer jobs and more competition among workers.

Ryan McMaken

The value of objects can change without any physical change to the object at all. I need only tell you that some junk you see is really art.

Bernardo Ferrero

Bastiat's broken-window fallacy lives on in Italy where advocates for a new wave of government spending will bring an economic renaissance.

Paul-Martin Foss

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided yet again today to hold off on raising the target federal funds rate.

Jonathan Newman

Not enacting price controls does not pass the "Do Something" test, yet the best thing politicians can do is sit on their hands.

Joseph T. Salerno

The NCAA is a powerful taxpayer-subsidized cartel that largely exists to deny the athletes the compensation they would earn in a working marketplace.