Mises Wire

This week, Dr. Gordon examines the work of the late Jonathan Lear and some thoughts he expressed about Lincoln and the treatment of the Confederate dead following Gettysburg.

Among the criticisms of capitalism is that it supposedly creates meaningless jobs created by villainous capitalists to keep people docile. However, it is state power and regulation that makes many jobs little more than meaningless make work.

When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.

Once we look past the Fed’s excuses, it’s likely we're witnessing the Fed give up on its two-percent target in real time.

Over the centuries, European governments have driven talented workers out of their countries. That unfortunate legacy continues as France is the latest nation facing a “brain drain.”

Henry Hazlitt wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons.

Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today.

The food stamp program is a way for Pepsico and the Coca-Cola company to legally rip off the taxpayers.

One of the justification that the White House gives for its onerous tariffs is that they will stop the “offshoring” of American jobs and lead to greater job growth here. That scenario has not and will not ever come to fruition.

Trump's team is citing the fentanyl crisis to justify its escalations near Venezuela. But virtually all illicit fentanyl is made and smuggled thousands of miles away. If war or regime change in Venezuela is good for the American people, why hide the true motivations?