Guns and Butter

Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what they are and how to fix them. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-actually-solve-affordability-crisis Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

President Trump has proposed a 50-year mortgage for new homebuyers, ostensibly to make housing more affordable. Actually, this financial instrument will make housing more costly and do nothing to address the root of this entire problem: the artificial housing shortage. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/50-year-mortgages-wont-make-housing-more-affordable Be sure to follow the Guns...

The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consistent or fall in line behind the president? Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-tariff-power-grab Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-have-not-properly-reckoned-economic-insanity-2020 Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at http...

Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she really bring the kind of change that will challenge the political establishment? Probably not. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bari-weiss-cbs-new-direction-or-misdirection Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at ht...

The media is trying to frame last week’s indictment of James Comey as a “norm-shattering” use of executive power for personal gain. In truth, it's just the latest chapter in a much older story: the struggle between elected and unelected officials. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-comey-and-long-history-unelected-government Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at h...

The political establishment is trying to stoke panic that Trump is “politicizing” the Federal Reserve. But it’s already political. The real danger, from their perspective, is not that Trump is changing the Fed; it’s that he’s making its true nature harder to hide. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/establishment-fears-about-trumps-focus-fed-are-about-optics-not-policy This week is...

As politics come to dominate more of our lives and young generations grow righteously disillusioned with a system designed to rip them off, we’re likely to see more violence and chaos. It’s a bad path we’re on. But there is a better one. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kirk-assassination-has-exposed-our-political-rot The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Hayek fo...

Since becoming president, most of the actions taken by President Trump have been anti-economic growth, and the US economy now is sputtering. Unfortunately, Trump seems to believe that a combination of trade restrictions and inflation is what the economy needs. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-digging-his-own-economic-grave The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies...

President Trump has deployed naval vessels off the coast of Venezuela, citing its escalation of the war on drugs. However, the true motivation for Washington’s involvement in the region is likelier related to disputed oil claims affecting well-connected energy companies. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/venezuela-military-deployment-about-cronyism-not-national-security The Mises...

The federal government taking an ownership stake in Intel is neither a promising new approach to governance nor an unprecedented leap into economic fascism. It’s simply Trump embracing the corrupt status quo he ran against with a superficial rebrand. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-problem-trumps-intel-deal The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Hayek for the...

Few really understand why these blue cities are crime-ridden. It’s not merely a lack of resources or even progressive ideology. At the root of the problem are governments working hard to maintain a monopoly on a service they then refuse to provide. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-dc-takeover-missing-point The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Hayek for the...

The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier in the war, when Western officials convinced Ukraine to walk away from peace talks and fight. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-putin-meeting-how-we-got-here Register for the 2025 Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, October 16–1...

When President Trump declared the Epstein case closed, many of his supporters in MAGA objected, believing that the government is still hiding the truth. But Trump opponents claim that MAGA is a monolithic movement beholden only to Trump. This incident tells us something else. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/split-over-epstein-tells-us-something-important-about-maga-movement The...

As the Texas floodwaters receded, politicians like Chuck Schumer twisted facts about the tragedy to score a political win. Examining what went wrong to prevent such tragedies from happening again is the right thing to do. But that involves looking at the actual facts. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/texas-floods-and-political-opportunism The Mises Institute is giving away 100,0...

The democratic establishment is upset that socialist Zohran Mamdani beat their candidate, Andrew Cuomo, in New York City’s mayoral primary. But the blame for socialism’s rising popularity lies mostly on their own shoulders. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/establishment-democrats-created-conditions-socialist-victory The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rot...

Although it may not have ultimately ended how they wished, the strikes on Iran demonstrated that neoconservatives are still a viable force within the GOP. But that shouldn’t discourage us. Ending endless wars isn’t easy, but it is worthwhile. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dismantling-warfare-state-was-never-going-be-easy The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Mu...

The United States is dangerously close to entering yet another war in the Middle East. But this one has the potential to be a lot costlier for the American people while remaining just as unlikely to bring about peace and stability in the region. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-iran-not-interest-american-people The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Roth...

What the “legacy” media is trying to present as a brand-new authoritarian crackdown on the press is only a more visible version of how the federal government has attempted to control public opinion for nearly a century. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/weaponization-media-access-did-not-suddenly-start-trump The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rothbard’s,...

As President Trump racks up defeat after defeat before the federal courts, the legacy media claims that federal judges are protecting us from government overreach. In reality, government overreach as we know it has been made possible by the federal judiciary. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/federal-judiciarys-war-trump-not-about-protecting-us-government-overreach The Mises Inst...

Members of the establishment are trying to seize on Trump’s recent frustrations with Putin to act like they’ve been right all along that the Russian president cannot be reasoned with. In truth, the difficult situation Trump finds himself in is almost entirely their fault. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-ending-war-ukraine-so-difficult-now The Mises Institute is giving away...

The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-biden-health-coverup-reveals-about-political-class The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray...

While Trump has not yet turned to price controls to address America‘s absurdly high drug prices, Monday‘s executive order suggests that he soon may. Price controls would only worsen the problem with the drug market. Here are three things he can do instead. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-trump-can-lower-drug-prices-without-price-controls The Mises Institute is giving away 1...

With the deadline for obtaining the federal government‘s Real ID technically upon us, it‘s important to understand that this is not an irritating but necessary program to keep Americans safe. It's the latest example of the government using 9/11 as an excuse to grab more power. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe The Mises Institute is giving away...

The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have made it clear that those who want the foreign policy status quo to continue are serious about doing what it takes to accomplish their goals, while those who want to change it are not. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-administration-not-serious-about-ending-endless-wars The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 cop...