Mises Wire

Surprisingly, Project 2025 blames the Fed for exacerbating the cycle of booms and busts, inflating away the value of the dollar, enabling exorbitant deficit spending.

The student loan program not only is saddling young people with huge debts, but it also encourages colleges and universities to charge higher tuition. When President Obama nationalized the program, it was supposed to end students indebtedness, not increase it.

The president's latest episode of "transparency" was the same deceitful behavior that has characterized his administration for the past four years. This time, it is employing deceit to "save democracy."

What we may call the “spending illusion” is perhaps the gravest error in the history of economic thought and has been deeply embedded in economics since the early twentieth century.

Social justice is a nonsensical term that interferes with the attempts to find authentic justice. It is not about equality so much as it is about imposing outcomes incompatible with a free society.

When municipalities embrace new technologies, people often refer to them as “smart cities.” However, all too often these technological “revenue enhancers” are nothing more than shakedowns of local citizens.

In the wake of the Labor Party's huge win in Great Britain, one is reminded that Labor and Conservatives are far more united in their economic and policy viewpoints than they pretend to be.

Kamala Harris is more than a continuation of the Obama-Biden progressive interventionism at home and abroad. She's an acceleration. 

The United States abolished its first three central banks, and this was followed by a period of immense economic growth. End the Fed? We did it before and can do it again. 

For all the regime's talk about "democracy," it is clear at this point that the White House is run by unelected personnel who are accountable only to technocratic elites.