Mises Wire

How do we view government ownership of natural resources? Can a homesteading case be made for it? Usually not.

Rental prices are falling as the markets adjust to new realities. The Austrian business cycle theory explains why this is happening.

The Keynesian prescription for an economic downturn is for government to increase spending to improve so-called aggregate demand. In reality, this is a recipe for worsening the recession.

If my repeated insistence that I do not consent is insufficient to indicate my lack of consent, then what kind of crazy moral system is this?

The latest rage in macroceonomics is modern monetary theory, whose adherents invariably resort to the motte-and-bailey fallacy. Advocating inflation is never a good idea.

Today's pundits have created the myth that Ellsberg was a "good" leaker and Assange et al. are "bad" leakers. It's a myth designed to portray modern-day heroic whistleblowers as "traitors." 

Some conservatives are upset because the new best-selling beer is owned by the same company that owns the beleaguered Bud Lite. Actually, they should have no problem with that.

"The first condition for the maximization of economic efficiency is the liberation of civil society with respect to the state. . . . The expansion of capitalism owes its origins and raison d’être to political anarchy."

Rent seeking is a popular term used in economics to describe the behavior of firms trying to gain something from the government. Time to expand the definition.

Our political and cultural elites have gaslighted us on inflation for years. To learn the truth, read the Austrians.