Mises Wire

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the various 2016 presidential campaigns have been thrown a serious curve ball.

If you think such proposals are far-fetched and would be opposed by the public, you obviously haven't been paying attention to the massive populist anger at Wall Street.

The current frenzy over the vacancy on the Supreme Court in the wake of Scalia’s death should be enough to make it clear to even the most naïve observer that the Supreme Court is a partisan and political institution, and nothing like the group of disinterested non-political sages that we are supposed to believe the court to be.

I have lived in Auburn, Alabama, for more than three decades and have never seen a Super Sized Construction Crane. Last week, two were erected in the middle of town.

Commentators have called the last Republican debate "thermonuclear" and similar adjectives, but not "ill-mannered", which it was. Is this because good manners no longer matter? Or, do good manners actually count against you?

The precarious and hostile coexistence between central banks and cash just ended. Earlier today the European Central Bank's Governing Council voted to withdraw the 500-euro note (worth $558) from circulation.

Compared to the golden age of innovation, now maligned as the "Gilded Age," technological innovation has slowed considerably. But, it doesn't have to be this way, if we can only get the state out of the way.

Does he realize what this would do to jobs?

As anger builds at the arrogance of central bankers, it’s becoming ever clearer that there is no plan for monetary policy to return to “normal.” As Robert Murphy explained at our recent event in Houston, the Fed’s magic trick just won’t work.

Drafting women into the military has suddenly become the latest frontier in achieving "equality." If we want real equality though, we need only agree to never force men into coerced service to the state, either.