Mises Wire

Frank Shostak

Adherents of the famous Phillips curve believe there is a permanent tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. This is mistaken.

Mihai Macovei

Most government intervention into currency exchange rates create more problems than they solve. Japan's lost decades are a prime example of what can happen.

Ryan McMaken

The rise of democracy blurred the lines between the regime and the people it exploits. This was less of a problem under monarchs, whose interests were clearly separate from the public's. 

Jon Wolfenbarger

The Fed is slowly increasing interest rates in the hopes that the economy will experience a "soft landing." However, there is no way to soften the blows about to fall on the economy.

Lipton Matthews

While the current political narratives claim that only Europeans were involved in the infamous transatlantic slave trade, the Africans themselves were also major players in directing and overseeing it.

Ludwig von Mises

There is only one way to improve the standard of living for the wage-earning masses: increased capital investment.

Manuel Tacanho

While African nations often are famous for corruption, poverty, and inflation, there is a way to bring dramatic changes to African economies: a gold-based currency.

Joseph Solis-Mullen

The Fed's suppression of interest rates in the USA didn't just affect this nation's economy. It also drove investors to seek higher interest rates in questionable investments.

Ryan McMaken

This is bad news for the administration, which has repeatedly attempted to downplay the relentless increases to the cost of living being inflicted on Americans after years of deficit spending, fueling inflationary monetary policy. 

Phil Duffy

While historians paint the enclosure movement in negative terms, it actually played an important role in developing agricultural entrepreneurship.