Mises Wire

The only real cure for too much debt is an orderly process of liquidation. No bailouts. No subsidies. No taxpayer involvement.

Whether or not a child should vote depends on whether or not he or she is a net taxpayer. 

Nationalism is not a unitary, monolithic phenomenon. If it is aggressive, we should oppose it; if liberatory, we should favor it. 

The new Florida legislation is a mess, but it does manage to introduce some chilling language about mental health.

Conflating "inflation" with a general rise in prices prevents understanding the true problem with inflation. 

Newspapers apparently have a very high opinion of the quality of the product they're turning out. Many consumers seem to disagree. 

There is no bright shiny line between cultural issues and economic ones. 

This market process is what allows a capitalist system to efficiently allocate resources, whereas a socialist system cannot—not even “in principle.”

The fundamental concept of the Communist Manifesto  was that of “class” and “class conflict.” But Marx didn’t say what a “class” was.

The massive tax breaks and subsidies being offered to Amazon for their second headquarters has taken crony capitalism to dizzying heights.