Mises Wire

James Bovard

In the past two decades, the TSA has proven it is ineffective in providing real security for airline passengers. However, its growing incompetence is matched only by its increasing intrusion into travelers' lives.

Ryan McMaken

Resettling Gazans in America—at taxpayer expense—will be sold as a "humanitarian" effort, but anyone who sees through the propaganda will see that it's really all a cynical effort to please Israeli politicians.

George Ford Smith

Advocates of unbacked paper money claim that theirs is the “civilized” choice, as opposed to gold, or what Keynes called “that barbarous relic.” These inflationists, however, are the ones wrecking civilization as we have known it.

Joakim Book

Ten years ago, I discovered the Mises Institute. This is the advice I wish I could send back to my younger self.

Scott Drylie

California governor Gavin Newsome has signed a draconian new bill meant to raise pay for the state's fast-food workers.

Peter St. Onge

Sovereign debt is eating the world. Lining up a financial crash that could make 2008 look like a picnic. How did we get here?

Daniel Lacalle

The problem of the eurozone is not China, rate hikes, or the Ukraine war. The curse of the eurozone is central planning. Subsidizing obsolete sectors and zombie firms, bloated government spending, and high taxes.

David Gordon

The US economy has deteriorated into little more than a series of asset bubbles driven by the inflationary policies of the central bank.

Maurizio Bovi

Humanity progressed very slowly from the fall of the Roman Empire to almost the nineteenth century. Then came the Industrial Revolution, which changed everything.

Vibhu Vikramaditya

Biden administration cheerleaders such as Paul Krugman claim that inflation is under control and that unemployment is falling. The numbers tell a very different story.