Mises Wire

Trevor Schleihauf

Canada‘s “private” long-term care homes are anything but private. But the fact a small sliver of the marketplace is allowed to charge fees for services means activists want even more socialized medicine.

Thorsten Polleit

The public usually doesn't understand how fiat money expansion benefits the regime at their expense. The regime likes it that way. 

Frank Shostak

In a free, unhampered market economy, individuals’ expectations are likely to correspond to the facts of reality. But we live in an economy where central banks routinely distort market signals and deceive the public. 

Alice Salles

An Indiana University health officer laments that incentives such as access to events, donuts, french fries, and even hard cash are no longer moving many Americans to fall in line with vaccination.

Paul T. Prentice

When the government pays people not to work, that means fewer people producing fewer goods. And that means a poorer society. More government spending won't change this fact. 

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Anticapitalism's origins are not found with the workers. Rather, it came from the aristocrats and middle-class intellectuals who harbored resentment and fear of the rising entrepreneurial and industrial classes. 

Lipton Matthews

The risk of government expropriation of private property remained low, and Botswana rejected antiwhite reformist politics which destroyed capital in many other countries in the region. Economic success has been a result. 

Brendan Brown

The ECB wants more price inflation, so it has unveiled a new plan to use new, radical monetary tools. It's all very similar to the "old" plan. Except the new plan is even worse. 

C.J. Maloney

In 1819 America, nobody blamed the effects for the Panic of 1819, they rightly blamed the cause. They blamed the "friendly central bank."

Antony P. Mueller

The goal of the human economy is to gain greater control over the means of satisfying human needs. We start with the most immediate needs, but thanks to saving and investment, we can move onward and upward from there.