Mises Wire

A "well-regulated militia," controlled by the states, was once considered essential to providing a counterweight against federal power.

It is true that perks from pharma companies influence doctors. But pharma dollars are nothing compared to the subsidies doled out by governments.

Monetary profit is not the only kind of profit, but in a complex world, monetary profit is essential in building sustainable economies.

With the American state broke and deeply in debt, it is just a matter of time until nuclear proliferation spreads to Japan, Germany, and South Korea.

Allow discrimination for anybody for any reason so that those who discriminate for the "wrong" reasons are naturally removed from the market.

New FDA regulations — like most crony capitalist regs — will help large established businesses while hurting smaller ones.

If the FTC really cared about the harmful effects of hidden sponsorships and fraudulent goods, it would spend all its time investigating government.

We should rewrite our textbook accounts to include the possibility of credit preceding a common medium of exchange and call it inter-temporal barter.

No one prints dollars on the purely free market because there are, in fact, no dollars; there are only commodities, such as wheat, cars, and gold.

Our monetary system encourages debt and punishes saving. It also benefits those who already have money at the expense of those who do not.