Mises Wire

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.

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

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.

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

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 cure for the curse of the Federal Reserve and its grand experiment is to install a sound monetary order. The next US president must clean house.