One of the most devastating moments in American history took place on August 6 and August 9, 1945, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Approximately three hundred thousand civilians, forty-three thousand soldiers, forty-five thousand Korean slave laborers, and over a thousand American citizens (including […]

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On January 10, the French government announced plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The change would mean that after 2027, workers in France would have to work 43 years to qualify for a government pension, instead of 42 years. French workers promptly […]

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Contact Tho Bishop Tho is an assistant editor for the Mises Wire, and can assist with questions from the press. Prior to working for the Mises Institute, he served as Deputy Communications Director for the House Financial Services Committee. His articles have been featured in The Federalist, the […]

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I am sorry to have to report that Yuri Maltsev has passed away. He was a professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member […]

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It’s theoretically impossible for government to regulate vaccines effectively. To see why, consider the following thought experiment: Imagine you were an expert employed somewhere in the government’s sprawling healthcare apparatus, and further imagine that you received incontrovertible evidence that every single person who took the […]

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Whenever an armed conflict breaks out, regardless of where it is, we are instantly presented with the number of people killed, along with how many families and entire communities have been forced from their homes. As regrettable as it sounds, those of us who have […]

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A well-known Australian athlete was found dead Saturday at his Sydney home, according to news reports. Simon Dunn, a rugby player who also competed on Australia’s bobsled team, was 35, according to Yahoo Sport Australia. His cause of death was not released, but officials said […]

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A thirtysomething tattoo artist who has undergone multiple body-mutilating surgeries to transform himself into a “black alien” laments that he has been “barred from restaurants” and has trouble securing employment because of his terrifying appearance. Despite this, Anthony Loffredo says he’s only 46 percent complete […]

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President Joe Biden has been caught making a rather embarrassing blunder during a speech — yet again. This latest gaffe came during a speech Tuesday at the White House in which Biden announced his plan to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to aid […]

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Trans-identified day-care instructor Maddie Piper is shown in an activist-training film teaching 4- and 5-year-old children using her ‘non-binary’ doll, Nash, whom she describes to the kids using the plural pronoun ‘they.’ (Video screenshot) Another leftist indoctrination video has surfaced showing a trans-identified day-care instructor […]

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens. David Card received the award for his paper (coauthored with Alan Krueger) “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” This […]

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Join a new Mises Member-founded Club Meetup in Opelika on Saturday, March 4! Ed Kerns will host the event at Red Clay Brewing Company, 704 North Railroad Avenue, Opelika. Registration is $20 and includes a catered lunch and tour of a local manufacturer. The objectives […]

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Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss new estimates of just how costly a US-China war over Taiwan would be. Things are made even worse by the fact the US is already shopping most of its weapon stockpiles to Ukraine. The US government simply refuses to […]

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The latest jobs report in the United States shows strengths and weaknesses. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 223,000 in December, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent. However, the United States job market continues to show negative real wage growth, the employment-to-population ratio […]

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Rochelle Richardson, aka “Silk” from the conservative commentary duo Diamond and Silk, may have lost her sister “Diamond,” but she has not lost the feisty spirit the two embodied together. And now she’s challenging the media to do some digging as to why Americans like […]

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Service member Sandra Lugo receives a COVID-19 vaccine booster during a shot event in the foc’sle aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 5, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Jett Morgan) The FDA is now recommending Americans take annual COVID booster […]

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Save the date!  Join the Mises Institute for an exciting Medical Freedom Summit Saturday, August 19, in Salem, NH! Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty will join us for keynote lectures, and we’ll have select items from the Mises Store available for purchase.  Agenda […]

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President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2021. (Video screenshot) The crisis created by Joe Biden at America’s southern border, with his decision to cancel virtually all of the border-security measures installed by President Trump, is a common subject of reporting these […]

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(Photo by Christopher Campbell on Unsplash) By Trevor SchakohlDaily Caller News Foundation King County, Washington’s Medical Examiner’s Office often runs out of storage room for dead bodies due to increasing fentanyl-related deaths, Seattle & King County Public Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan said Thursday, according […]

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One of the most helpful insights of Austrian economics for business is the understanding of uncertainty. To complete a sale to a customer is to take that customer on a journey from high uncertainty to lower uncertainty — sufficiently low that they’ll make a purchase and […]

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