Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

In a situation where value is measured almost strictly in dollars, coffee is only for closers, but when value is calculated outside the numerical discipline of the ledger, things get more complicated.

Peter St. Onge

Robert Shiller, in a new screed against capitalism in The New York Times, asserts that government regulation makes countries rich. He then bolsters this argument by making stuff up.

Jonathan Newman

Nevada has ruled that online fantasy sports are subject to gambling license laws in the state. The reason for the ruling is painfully clear: to suppress competition with the big casinos in the state.

Hunter Lewis

There is a close connection between the three.

Mises Institute

It was a big week for Bernie Sanders's brand of socialism, and millions of Americans already agree with him. Thanks to unquestioning acceptance of wild claims about the success of socialism in Europe, many Americans are now wishing for some European-style socialism themselves.

David Gordon

Irwin Schiff, imprisoned for his resistance to the federal income tax, died yesterday.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Nordic countries prospered in spite of the Scandinavian model, not because of it.

Ryan McMaken

In this week’s debate, Bernie Sanders claimed that the United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty.

Jeff Deist

Because conservatives are only nominally less statist than today’s progressives, socialist policies that would have sounded outrageous to many Americans 100 years ago are now the baseline for the modern American political mind. Bernie Sanders is capitalizing on this reality.

Joseph T. Salerno
Well, at least one of the candidates vying for the Republican or Democratic presidential nomination appears to have a reasonable grasp of current economic reality and the complicity of the Federal Reserve in exacerbating an impending financial disaster.