Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

During October 2015 (the most recent data available), the TMS increased 6.9 percent over October 2014's TMS value. October's growth rate was the lowest rate of growth shown in 7 years (84 months).

Ryan McMaken

Numerous pundits within the Conservative media are telling us that the military is facing cuts of historic proportions. In fact, military spending remains at near historic highs and Obama has spent more tax money on national defense than Reagan did during the Cold War.

Ryan McMaken

This week a number of wire services picked up a story in whi

Roy Cordato

When the Soviet Union wanted to take away the rights of Catholics to worship, it confiscated their churches. The Soviets knew that the right to own property is intimately connected to a right of religious freedom. Pope Francis appears to not understand this.

Joseph T. Salerno

A bill unanimously recommended for passage by the Wisconsin Assembly Committee and now being considered by the Wisconsin Assembly 

Kirby R. Cundiff

Social Security has never involved legally-binding contracts between the government and those who allegedly “pay in.” Nevertheless, the government has long pretended that there is a contract, except when it gets in the way of raising taxes to keep the program afloat.

Tho Bishop

During Monday’s chaotic day of demonstrations at the University of Missouri, professor Melissa Click accomplished something she may ha

Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard: In contrast to older historians who regarded World War I as the destruction of progressive reform, I am convinced that the war came to the United States as the "fulfillment," the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life. I regard progressivism as basically a movement on behalf of Big Government in all walks of the economy and society, in a fusion or coalition between various groups of big businessmen, led by the House of Morgan, and rising groups of technocratic and statist intellectuals. In this fusion, the values and interests of both groups would be pursued through government.

Mark Thornton

New York State Attorney General says that fantasy football is just as bad for you as the State Lottery. The lottery is actually much worse!

Jeff Deist

What is the best way to fight the leviathan state? Is it through politics, culture, or secession? There are benefits to each approach, but the way to success lies with decentralization and in building a strong society as an alternative to the state.