Mises Wire

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

The EU's protests against Trump's trade policies have the stench of hypocrisy about them. 

Liberalism, freedom, and free markets were far less important in Latin American independence movements than in the fledgling United States. 

Social justice is a moral concept, not a legal one.

Unfortunately, it's not actually possible to determine the costs of our current choices 200 years in the future.  

It is a myth that "we don't make things in America anymore." Thanks to automation, we simply need fewer people to make more stuff. 

In a truly free society, the scope of government easily can be reduced to a much smaller domain than even many friends of freedom often think.

To put an Austrian spin on this, conception is essentially the creation of a higher order good.

Reducing the regulatory burden on American industry would actually be good for Americans — unlike a tariff hike.