Mises Wire

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A Wall Street crisis would become a Main Street crisis without quantitative easing, or so the story began in Nov. 2008. Have you seen a recovery?

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

Contrary to dire warning of economic disaster, the British economy has weathered Brexit quite well. Now central bankers are taking the credit.

Populism, anti-globalism, anti-elitism — these are all symptoms of a hostility toward politics. We should embrace the opportunity they present.