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As the economy begins to slow, the results of the Fed's money pumping are showing up in mergers and acquisitions. Original Article: "Mergers, Acquisitions, and Market Manias: The Fed Has Made Things Worse" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

While politicians claiming to be "fiscally responsible" call for balanced budgets, the real drag on the economy is government spending itself. Original Article: "Government Spending Is the Real Tax; Deficits Are a Sideshow" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

Police stood around outside the Uvalde, Texas, school while a gunman shot children inside. Meanwhile, gun control advocates tell us we should just trust the cops to keep us safe.  Original Article: "Police Botched the Uvalde Standoff. Now Gun Controllers Want

The current baby formula shortage in the United States is a pressing crisis, and many in the media have been rushing to explain how such a thing could have happened. But on close analysis, it appears to share the same

There was a time when the advocates of socialism argued that it would lead man to material abundance, whereas free-market capitalism would lead only to increasing misery and would ultimately collapse under its own internal stresses. You don't hear that

It has become a familiar sight over the past decade and a half: a supposedly venerable member of the financial elite tells us with utmost calm that what we think we are seeing isn’t really all that bad. The Fed already

Thirty-nine people were killed in school shootings in 2018 (one of the worst years). In the same period, 900 children drowned, and 1,800 were murdered via child abuse.  Original Article: "Just How Common Are School Shootings?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored

Jeff and Dr. Murphy discuss a recent interview with IMF economist Manmohan Singh in the context of central banks co-opting digital technology for bad ends. Find Manmohan Singh's Interview: Mises.org/HAP-Singh Janet Yellen, "I was wrong about inflation": Mises.org/HAP-Yellen Kristoffer Hansen on the basics

In the early stages of trade, when economizing individuals are only slowly awakening to knowledge of the economic gains that can be derived from exploitation of existing exchange opportunities, their attention is, in keeping with the simplicity of all cultural

In last week’s article, I discussed some of the arguments Yoram Hazony gives in his book Conservatism: A Rediscovery in favor of an empiricist procedure in ethics that supports working within a particular national tradition and against the rationalist deductive