Mises Wire

Unrestricted birthright citizenship is increasingly rare, and with only a couple of exceptions, it persists only in countries with negative or near-zero rates of in-migration.

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A closer look gives us a different picture of “Honest Abe.” David Gordon reviews a book that very much questions the Lincoln mythology.

Has the statist tide turned from where we were culturally and politically four years ago? Or is this just a temporary lull before the political culture makes another hard left?

The challenge facing economic science is to counter the reactionary counterrevolution by states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation and free human interaction based on liberty. The chains must be thrown off in favor of the libertarian ideal of an anarchocapitalist system. 

John Maynard Keynes is often credited with presciently criticizing the harsh anti-German measures of the Treaty of Versailles. But, it turns out that Keynes was playing both sides.  

Economist Jonathan Newman joins Ryan to discuss how deficit spending and runaway debt is causing price inflation and higher interest rates. 

Governments seem united in their drive to destroy sound money and replace it with worthless paper. As technologies advance, however, so does the ability of people to undermine government, and with it, the development of sound money.

Trump promises to levy new tariffs and trade restrictions, along with subsidies for favored industries. This latest version of “industrial policy” will fail again, it has in the past. 

The Biden presidency is over and not a minute too soon. Biden‘s five decades of public life has always been one of a mediocre grifter, but he saved his worst for his four years in the White House, where he managed to combine incoherence and incompetence with a lust for power.

European Union regulators are levying draconian new requirements for aviation fuel that will surely force up costs for airlines operating in the EU. While these new rules will have zero effect on the climate, the effects on their airlines and their passengers will be negative.