Mises Wire

Unilateral free trade is not some utopian libertarian ideal. It is a real-world policy that has been used and which reaps economic rewards.

Faith in the voting process has weakened because voters are increasingly fearful of what an electoral loss might bring.

The decline in industrial production is in many ways the product of government interventionism.

China has many problems, but it also has a high savings rate, a limited welfare state, and a rising middle class.

Populism is a strategy that may be used by any ideological group whose political agenda differs radically from that of the ruling class.

To understand the marketplace, it is not necessary to believe in the existence of a selfish, profit-maximizing human.

The federal government is again trying to take free choice away from borrowers by imposing new regulations on short-term loans like payday lending.

The rejection of CETA by Belgium is a bittersweet affair.

Thanks to tax policy, the South and West are growing much faster than the old baseball heartland in the Northeast.

In New York, hotel industry groups have successfully lobbied to outlaw their competition.