Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

When Georgia and Florida scaled back covid restrictions, the experts predicted far more death in the "open states" than in the locked down states like New York and California. The numbers tell a different story. 

James Bovard

Few political follies are more hazardous than presuming that one’s liberties are forever safe. If liberty is God’s gift to humanity, then why were most people who ever lived on Earth denied this divine bequest?

Frank Shostak

The more the government spends, the worse it is for the health of the economy and thus for economic growth. Experts who advocate for very strong government stimulus never bother to ask how those measures are going to be supported by the larger economy.

J.R. Vidueira

Wage hike advocates effectively seek to force entrepreneurs to raise the costs of production after many of them have barely survived what became a catastrophic 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Weimin Chen

In a normal world, American spending would have sharply declined during the past year. But a flood of newly printed money has juiced spending and imports. 

David Gordon

The second edition of The Great Fiction will be welcomed by all readers interested in the theoretical foundations of a free society.

Jeff Deist

The financial press gives us the what, when we need the how and why. Economic journalism needs a reset.

José Niño

Nuland was an advisor to ultrainterventionist Dick Cheney and would continue the costly expansionist policies of the Bush and Obama years. 

Joseph T. Salerno

China was one of the first countries to develop a metallic money that was valued and exchanged by weight. Evidence suggests that this monetary regime originated during the Shang Dynasty (1766–1122 BC). 

Hal Snarr

Hegel and Marx took a philosophy from some fringe Christian groups and turned it into a global utopian movement that has been disastrous.