Mises Wire

Mihai Macovei

In the wake of the financial meltdown fifteen years ago, some countries placed strict limits on piling on public debt. Despite cries that this harms investment opportunities, the ”debt brakes” have worked well.

Sergio Fernández Redondo

For close to eighty years, Argentina has been the world's poster child for reckless and spendthrift government. Today, the world watches it for a very different reason: Rothbardian reforms.

David Gordon

Continuing his examination of Scott Sehon's book on socialism, David Gordon asks if socialism violates people's rights. Gordon concludes that it does.

Aleksandar Novakovic

We don't think of Serbia as a “free” country, but there were movements toward limited government in the past. Unfortunately, the events of the twentieth century overwhelmed the freedom movements there.

Stephen Anderson

Federal spending is not the only out-of-control government spending in the US. A number of states have been overspending and now face declining revenues. Will bankruptcies follow?

Jonathan Newman

Richard Cantillon, whom Austrians consider to be the real father of modern economics, noted that new money creation has uneven effects. Jonathan Newman demonstrates how those effects take place.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Block’s call for total war and the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza is the complete and uninhibited rejection and renunciation of the nonaggression principle that constitutes one of the very cornerstones of the Rothbardian system.

Frank Hollenbeck

Understanding the scientific method is crucial when examining complex phenomena and related hypotheses like “man is the main cause of climate change.” Unfortunately, "political method" has replaced the scientific method.

Connor O'Keeffe

The president wants to appear as a “scourge” of the ultrawealthy. But he has only been a scourge of the productive wealthy while remaining a dear ally of unproductive cronies.

Ryan McMaken

Opponents of secession use a moral doctrine which justifies regimes' denial of the right of self-determination. These de facto colonialists tell us separatists are too backward and immoral to be allowed to govern themselves.