Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken
Puerto Rico owes $70 billion to various creditors, including American hedge funds and other funds. Puerto Rican debt has been downgraded to junk status. Whether or not Puerto Rico is America's Greece is rather debatable.
Gary Galles

Frederic Bastiat saw that the economic disharmony of coercion destroys the economic harmony of freedom. 

Ryan McMaken

There are three groups of people who believe that the Supreme Court does not make decisions based on personal whims, personal ideology, pressure fr

Ryan McMaken

The position that a tax exemption is a subsidy has always been wrong.

Ryan McMaken

Global markets appear to be unsure that the Greek debt crisis will be resolved in an orderly way.

Hunter Lewis

As usual, the former Fed chairman, author of many of our current economic ills, is confused.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

The stability of the Eurozone is back in the spotlight this week amidst Greece’s talks with its creditors—which seem to be going nowhere good. 

Mark Thornton

Congress and the First Lady teamed up to impose the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act on school children across the country, but news of unintended consequences abound.

Matthew McCaffrey

It’s a great time to be studying entrepreneurship. Today as never before entrepreneurs are confronted with “grand challenges” both in the marketplace and society more broadly. And despite constant efforts to stifle their work, entrepreneurs rise to these challenges, thereby showing their vital role in solving some of our deepest economic and social problems. 

Randall G. Holcombe

Readers who want to get a flavor for the ideas of Friedrich Hayek will find an excellent introduction in Donald Boudreaux’s The Essential Hayek