Mises Wire

America's thriving energy sector has boomed in part thanks to inexpensive foreign steel. 

Broadening state powers to declare people "mentally ill" is a dangerous proposition. 

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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