Mises Wire

This is the fruit of free labor. It is able to create more wealth for everyone than slave labor once provided for the masters.

Most Americans today are now reflexively progressive, meaning they want government to do something, rather than reflexively libertarian.

Even if the Brazilian president is impeached, Brazil may still opt for the "safe" interventionism that has crippled the country for so long.

Why is the Fed holding so many secret meetings lately?

Bernie Sanders wants to make the postal service into a bank. It has been tried before.

Economists err if they believe something is wrong when money is not in constant, active "circulation."

The funding of research is inherently an entrepreneurial decision.

Following the unconventional monetary policy of negative interest rates, central banks are now considering an even more desperate measure: "helicopter money."

A national one-size-fits-all minimum wage is far worse than the state mandates, and punishes areas with low cost of living the most.

Two recent interviews with Ryan McMaken covering employment issues.