Canada’s Housing Boom Was a Bubble. Now Comes the Bust
The latest Canadian housing data showed a slight uptick in prices and a pause from 2022’s correction, and a new wave of dip buyers has already begun to call this a buying opportunity, as if valuations at ten times average
Equality Requires State Violence
Although equality and "equity" are modern buzzwords, the only way to reach such a social nirvana is through violent means. Do we really want to go there? Original Article: "Equality Requires State Violence" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
Three Reasons Americans Should Be Concerned about the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill
Jennifer Huddleston On the TV show Parks and Rec, libertarian character Ron Swanson takes a trip to London and famously quips, “History began on July 4 1776. Everything before that was a mistake.” When it comes to issues like free expression online, it is easy
Enemies of the Human Race
The Revolt against Humanity: Imagining a Future without Usby Adam KirschColumbia Global Reports, 2023; 100 pp. Aristotle says in book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics that “happiness, therefore, being found to be something final and self-sufficient, is the End at which
CDC Survey Finds Record Low Number of Adult Cigarette Smokers as Adult Vaping Increases
Jeffrey A. Singer When 14 academic public health experts wrote in the American Journal of Public Health in 2021 supporting e‑cigarettes as a powerful tobacco harm reduction tool, it mostly fell on deaf ears. San Francisco and other cities have since banned
The Economics of Space Travel
Are NASA contracts propping up the private space industry? Or are Government regulations stifling the private space race? Dr. Eli Dourado, Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, joins Bob to discuss the recent
Friday Feature: Nevada School of Inquiry
Colleen Hroncich Christina and Eric Threeton have a lot of experience in education. They both taught in the Clark County School District in Nevada before moving to the charter school sector. When they moved into charter administration, they expected to really be
Western Muslims, LGBT Rights, and Free Speech
Mustafa Akyol In recent years, Muslim communities in the West have been pushed to two opposite trends: On the one hand, there are Muslim politicians or activists who ally themselves with the progressive left, because the latter’s “inclusion” agenda promises a better
No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over
As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot. Original Article: "No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over" This Audio Mises Wire is
Neither Red nor Blue, but Free
The human tendency to kill what one fears asserted itself on April 4, 2023, as a Manhattan district attorney called Donald Trump into his office to issue a vague threat. What crime Trump was being charged with is known only to