Mises Wire

Most people think the Industrial Revolution catapulted humanity into modern comfort, but this narrative leaves out the agricultural revolution that had to come first.

As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.

It's going to take more than a 0 percent policy interest rate and a newly invented name for QE to really address years of monetary inflation. 

Forget the talk from Biden and economists like Paul Krugman. Double-digit inflation is here, and it will be with us for a while.

Nearly four hundred local, state, and federal police were involved in the law enforcement debacle at Uvalde. Ninety-one state troopers did nothing. This isn't just local. 

The great credit expansion Alan Greenspan began thirty years ago has finally run its course. The Fed no longer can expand credit to fight the oncoming recession.

Mortgage companies and realtors are today's canaries. They're in deep trouble, and so are the rest of us. 

When you sign up for our new weekly podcast email, we will send you a free audiobook version of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed.

Language is an institution in society. We need to protect it from vandals in the state-linguistic complex.

Critics claim the market economy engages in "planned obsolescence" that encourages throwing good products into landfills. In fact, activities that might seem wasteful are the best use of resources.