Mises Wire

Why the huge price increases associated with the ACA? Obamacare has too much risk and too little population of healthy individuals to bear the cost.

The courts have long sided with the Feds in refusing to enforce gold clauses in private contracts. State governments can undo some of this damage.

Iceland's populist left-anarchist/libertarian/hacker Pirate party just shook up the corrupt political establishment in Iceland.

Monopolies and cartels are creations of government, not markets.

Higher education degrees no longer hold any value for employers.

Thanks to government meddling, we all pay more for sugar to benefit a few powerful interest groups.

Free lunches are not really free, even to those who vote for them. There are other reasons to vote against getting "free stuff," too.

Inferno features a Malthusian villain set on halving the world's population out of overpopulation fears. Let us unpack this myth.

As free-floating fiat money, the major currencies of the world are locked in a complex game of relative devaluation and manipulation.

As public faith in elections falls, and politicians foist an ever greater burden on us, a true populist opposition movement may be growing.