Mises Wire

Weimin Chen

Even though there has been organized opposition to US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, whoever is in the White House—this time Joe Biden—continues to support this destructive conflict.

Frank Shostak

While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.

Jeff Deist

There is trouble around the globe. But there is tremendous cause for optimism. Things can change very quickly. Help the Mises Institute hurry things along.

Sanjeev Sabhlok

Public health agencies tend to be treated like authoritative sacred cows. In reality, they have politicized health policies to the point where they really are a health hazard.

Lipton Matthews

Forty years ago, American politicians claimed that Japanese economic success was due to government economic planning. Unfortunately, the myth of industrial policy never seems to die, no matter how many times it is discredited.

Alex J. Pollock

Prices are an intersection of human expectations, actions, hopes and fears. I like to ask audiences, “How much can the price of an asset change?” My proposed answer: “More than you think.”

Michael Rectenwald

More than sixty years ago, Mao launched the disastrous Great Leap Forward. Progressive elites today are trying to force GLF II in the form of the Great Reset. If implemented, it will be even more disastrous than Mao's original folly.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

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Thorsten Polleit

Yuval Noah Harari, who teaches history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, denies that free will exists. However, to deny free will is to deny human action itself.

Mark Thornton

Unemployment remains low but for the wrong reasons. Low unemployment rates are not a sign that the economy is doing well.