Mises Wire

Octavio Bermudez

Government intervention is everywhere, but it is most evident in education.

George Ford Smith

Most people believe that the state is a necessary entity for securing private property rights. However, a study of the American West before the territories became states shows us a different reality where communities protected their property without state intervention.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Americans who went off to fight in World War I—and the politicians who sent them there—were no less imperialistic than the Germans were. 

Ryan McMaken

Month-to-month money-supply growth turned positive in March, and money growth hit a two-year high. The Fed clearly has no appetite for more monetary "tightening." 

Wanjiru Njoya

The rage among academic elites and multiculturalists is the insistence that one cannot apply Western economic analysis to different cultures. However, Ludwig von Mises insisted that economics is a universal science.

David Jäkle

As the US economy falters and people continue to fall behind, the Austrian business cycle theory provides the best explanation for what is happening, even if the elites don't want to hear it.