Mises Wire

President Biden makes the false claim that wind- and solar-generated electricity are cheaper than power generated from coal and oil.

Government statistics on inflation in the food sector have failed to account for skimpflation and shrinkflation.

Several nations look to develop a gold-based currency to bypass the US dollar. The world shall see after the BRICS nations meet next month how successful they are.

Kamala Harris recently declared that we need to "reduce population." While the White House quickly claimed she misspoke, progressives have given enough near-religious devotion to neo-Mathusianism to convince some of us that Harris meant what she said.

While Americans believe the First Amendment protects their speech, the US government and mainstream media have joined together to suppress speech that does not coincide with government policies.

Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.

More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese Tao presented ideas that are reflected in F.A. Hayek's concept of spontaneous order.

The political passion for "social justice" is creating a larger free-rider problem and a problem of injustice.

Some residents of St. Louis, fed up with the nonprotection from the city's police, have hired private security to deal with the problem. The egalitarian Left, of course, doesn't like that.

The use of interstate compacts by US states shows that the states don't need the federal government to dictate or manage interstate relations.