Mises Wire

Wanjiru Njoya

Lenin and Trotsky have long been dead, but their efforts to erase history through revolutions live on. Today, the erasure is happening in Western Europe and the United States, as progressives carry on that the Bolsheviks started.

Ryan McMaken

Contrary to the narrative pushed by those who want more easy money, there is no monetary deflation or disinflation and the money supply continues to grow.

Brendan Brown

There has been much talk of disinflation, but all the evidence points toward the conclusion that the Federal Reserve continues to administer injections of monetary inflation.

Gregory Bresiger

Our socialist transit systems are an ongoing failure made worse by even more government intervention. We should not be surprised, then, when political leaders insist that the real problem is the lack of a political will to spend even more money on government enterprises.

Frank Shostak

Monetarists and rational expectations economists believe that if monetary policy is transparent, then increases in the money supply will not have negative effects. The actual results say otherwise, as introducing new money into the economy leads to economic instability.

George Ford Smith

It is one thing to understand economics and quite another to be able to explain how economics works. Those who favor free markets also need to be able to explain and defend them.

Douglas French

College professors have suddenly discovered entrepreneurship and are teaching about it in their classes. However, while it is an interesting subject, one cannot teach someone how to be a successful entrepreneur. 

Wanjiru Njoya

Total war against civilians didn‘t begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay waste to southern cities, towns, and farms. Tactics northern generals used against civilians became the blueprint for armed forces in Europe and Japan 80 years later.

Jimmy Alfonso Licon

When politicians intervene in the economy, they often do it in the name of mitigating “greed” or “profiteering.” While they can pass laws regulating prices and the like, they cannot repeal economic laws. Instead, they can only make things worse.