Mises Wire While Elon Musk says he will bring free speech back to Twitter, the forces of statism will not be still. The jury is out on how successful Musk’s experiment will …
While Elon Musk says he will bring free speech back to Twitter, the forces of statism will not be still. The jury is out on how successful Musk’s experiment will …
Government economists “seasonally adjust” data in order to better respond with policy recommendations to deal with business cycles. The problem is that government causes the cycles. Original Article: “Are Seasonally Adjusted …
Every theory must ultimately meet two tests: one, that of internal consistency, the other that of consistency with reality.—Frank A. Fetter The great economist Ludwig von Mises played a seminal …
Insurance is a market institution—i.e., it emerged through voluntary exchange aiming at satisfying the needs of the parties involved. Private health insurance should not be mistaken for public health insurance, …
The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced many Westerners to consider the realism of Carl von Clausewitz’s classic On War. The Prussian military theorist famously wrote that: “War is nothing …
President Biden’s nonsolution of partial “debt forgiveness” is in limbo, but the slow financial destruction that massive student loan debt is unleashing continues. Original Article: “Student Loan Debt: The Financial Time …
Law Professor David Bernstein looks at the system of racial classifications in the USA and explains why they have been harmful. Original Article: “Review of Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification …
War dissenters are branded “Putinists” by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly makes one a Putin sympathizer. Original Article: “It’s …
Home price growth of the sort we’ve seen in recent years simply cannot be sustained without a continued commitment to easy money from the central bank, and it shows. Original …