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Last week, Jerome Powell insisted that he's not going to change his mind on allowing interest rates to rise, while allowing the assets on the Fed's portfolio to (very slowly) roll off the balance sheet. At the Federal Reserve's annual

Keynesians claim that tax cuts are good because they help increase consumer spending. But here's why this doesn't matter. Original Article: "Do We Want Real Tax Cuts? How About Cutting Government Spending?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

It gives me no joy to write this piece. Even a cursory review of the redacted version of the affidavit submitted in support of the government’s application for a search warrant at the home of former President Donald Trump reveals that

History matters, especially as the New York City today faces still another subway crisis. The New York subway system’s history illustrates the failures of state enterprise. The subways have been bad for so long that few know when the subways were

While the antimarket and antilibertarian forces are strong, it is easy to forget that free market advocates also have a powerful set of tools. Original Article: "Taking Stock of the Assets We Have (and We Have a Lot of Them)" This Audio

Security state agencies must justify their existence. There are 1,271 counterterrorist, homeland security, and intelligence organizations; 1,931 private sector analogues; 10,000 locations of these organizations; and ~854,000 people with top-secret security clearances as of 2010. To make matters worse, the line

The Mises Institute has worked for more than four decades to advance one purpose: the cause of economic freedom in academia and public life. The two comments on our work that I hear most often are: (1) you guys are doing

Much of modern history portrays the African slave trade as purely a European venture. But capturing and sending slaves abroad required both approval and aid from African elites. Original Article: "The African Slave Trade Wouldn't Have Been Possible without African Elites" This

[Dr. Gilbert Berdine of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Ryan McMaken discuss the policy makers’ justifications for vaccine mandates over the past two years. Will any of these policy makers admit to any mistakes?] Ryan McMaken: The Centers

According to many economic commentators, an effective way to generate economic growth is through the lowering of taxes. The lowering of taxes, it is held, will place more money in consumers’ pockets, thereby setting in motion an economic growth. This