Mises Wire

Tho Bishop

Senator Rand Paul's proposal is an improvement from Obamacare, but it doesn't address the fundamental problems with American healthcare.

Joseph T. Salerno

Joseph Salerno's essay "Ludwig von Mises as a Social Rationalist," is now available in a new easier-to-read version.

Jason Jewell

In a new book Literature and Liberty, Allen Mendenhall brings a fresh eye to literary criticism — a discipline long marred by doctrinaire Marxism.

Nathan Keeble

A "universal basic income" serves to make workers and entrepreneurs less likely to produce goods and services the consumers need most.

Ron Paul

The only way to avoid fiscal crises is to stop increasing spending and instead begin reducing spending on all aspects of the welfare-warfare state.

Ludwig von Mises

Profit is a product of the mind, of success in anticipating the future state of the market. It is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

Frank Shostak

In a free market economy, banks would actually have to clear their checks and this would be a deterrent to creating money out of "air."

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

What these "excuses" point to is the marginal productivity of the worker is lower than the salary the employer is forced to him pay by law.

Mises Institute

The nation braces itself for the inauguration of a new president. Politics, however, will not cure what ails us.

Ryan McMaken
Even if we agreed that states can provide certain amenities of value, state powers still become dangerously prone to abuse the larger the state grows.