Mises Wire

Justin Murray

President Obama has claimed that mass shootings do not occur in other countries. But, the data is clear that they do happen other places, and in places with stringent gun control laws. Worldwide, the state fails to keep its citizens safe.

Jeffrey M. Herbener
Grove City College will host the twelfth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 26-27, 2016.
David Gordon

Murray Rothbard reviewed an early work by Douglass North, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860.

Andrew Syrios

Bernie Sanders and other advocates for more taxes like to note that income tax rates hit 90 percent in the 1950s. What they leave out is that few ever paid such rates and total tax revenues were about the same then as today.

Patrick Barron

Patrick Barron, an associated scholar with the Mises Institute, passes along a letter he wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer in response to

Ryan McMaken

The Drudge Report today features the headline: ”BUST: 1.1 million Americans don’t have a toilet...”

Jonathan Newman

Amazon has developed a new way to help people do easy work for a little extra cash. The jobs involve repetitive tasks that computers can't do. But, since the jobs pay below minimum wage, we're told the whole thing should be outlawed.

Ryan McMaken

Earlier this year, the Swiss central bank joined Denmark and Sweden in implementing negative interest rates.

Mises Institute

The Paris attacks forced the world's attention away from causes such as the plight of "white privilege" on college campuses and back to the consequences of blowback to interventionist foreign policy. Unfortunately, the political response to these atrocities have been predictable.