Mises Institute

• The Eye-Care Industry Wants Big Government to Crush the Competition
  By: Jonathan Lee Big Eye is watching you. For more than a decade, lobbyists from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which controls over 40 percent of the contact lens market as a result of their cozy relationship with optometrists, and the American Optometric Association (AOA), which represents nearly 40,000 optometrists nationwide, have been fighting to create […]
• What Keeps James Bullard Up at Night
  By: C.Jay Engel I hate to be the bearer of bad news before a three day weekend, but St. Louis Fed President James Bullard informs us that "U.S. prices are now 4.6 percent below the price level path established from 1995 to 2012, when inflation was growing near the Fed's target of 2 percent each year."This lower […]
• How Washington's Reaction to Trump's Budget Justifies the Rise of Bitcoin
  By: Tho Bishop Earlier this week the Trump administration announced their proposed budget for 2018. The plan bears some striking resemblance to Trump’s first budget attempt in three key ways: it contains some legitimate cuts to a number of government programs, it features increases to America’s irrational war budget, and all together it reflects a […]
• The Trump Budget: Real Cuts vs. the Media Version of "Cuts"
  By: Ryan McMaken One of the cardinal rules of government accounting and rhetoric is to call any slowdown in the growth rate of government spending a "cut." This gives the impression that less is being spent when more is being spent. It's just that less is being spent than the government had planned on spending otherwise. With […]
• Education: Free and Compulsory
  By: Murray N. Rothbard Download the complete audiobook in MP3 format (17 files in a single ZIP). It is also available as an M4B Audiobook file, and on iTunesU and Soundcloud.What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, […]