Mises Wire

Teaching high schoolers economics means teaching Austrian principles.

Those adhering to Austrian Economic thinking see the beauty in concepts coming together and providing a way to truthfully assess human action.

Because of inflation and a lack of a savings ethic, Americans are less prepared for retirement than ever. The numbers are discouraging.

Never before have we seen an entire generation of young Americans being censored—and self-censoring—for making innocuous statements. This does not end well.

It's popular for politicians to claim they will never cut Social Security. But doing nothing now about the program means imposing an even larger hit on seniors in the future. 

With negative growth now dipping below –5 percent, money-supply contraction is approaching the biggest declines we've seen in the past thirty-five years.

Resources are scarce even when money is not.

Lying by elites that control our nation's institutions has become so commonplace that now we only can dream and fantasize about what might happen if someone in those places told the truth.

As the Fed "fights inflation" by increasing interest rates, its actions will not produce the hoped-for "soft landing," but rather the hard bust.

As sales and price growth slow, the real estate industry is betting everything on a return to easy money. In 2023, it's become the very foundation of their "market."