Mises Wire

Conservatives may protest at first, but ultimately, they bring up the progressive rear to defend, and indeed celebrate, the new status quo.

This feud is little more than two factions within the Federal government fighting over how exactly to use the Fed’s many powers to inflate, exploit, and help fund an ever expanding federal government.

When Hugo Chavez nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and created a huge welfare state funded by declining oil revenues, he unleashed huge social problems that have reduced the nation to poverty. The Trump administration’s recent actions against Venezuela will make things much worse.

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for falsification at any time. Austrian economics, however, begins with economic theory, which is used to interpret the real world.

Each economic crisis brought on by loose money brings on a “solution” of...looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to the economy but to our very freedom itself.

As an official Public Policy Hooligan, James Bovard is well-known for some of his zingers. Here are some he wrote in 2025.

The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they were supposed to work. Unfortunately, the advocates of a strong central government ultimately got their way.

The US is not the only country with a broken air traffic control system due to state control. India's system also is in a statist mess. The solution is to get government out of the business of ATC.

The Fed is cutting its discount rate again, but Americans will be disappointed with the results, as the Fed’s latest action only contributes to the boom-and-bust cycle.

Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.