Mises Wire

John Kennedy

People often speak of the Constitution with reverence, as though it were infallible. However, the Constitution was a centralizing document that cast aside the decentralization of the Articles of Confederation.

Carlos Martinez

More than sixty years after being "liberated" by Fidel Castro and communism, Cuba has become a large slave state where people enjoy little freedom.

Manuel Tacanho

Keynesian economics is a scourge to any nation that tries it, and African countries are no exception.

Frank Shostak

A common error in economics is to label increases price increases inflation. Inflation actually is an increase in the money supply, and that increase leads ultimately to price hikes.

Ryan McMaken

Why do Americans believe that state and local laws are subject to veto by federal policy makers but the federal government is to be the sole judge of its own laws? Federal elites want it that way.

Mihai Macovei

In an attempt to stymie the spread of covid-19, the Chinese government has imposed reckless and harmful lockdown policies in several cities. This will not end well.

Lipton Matthews

The standard line among the Great Reset crowd is that capitalism exploits poor nations and causes poverty. In reality, capitalism and free markets have reduced poverty around the world.

Ryan McMaken

Indian tribe sovereignty has long been a much neglected, yet important, tool in decentralizing and limiting government power in the US. 

Lipton Matthews

Groups targeted by class warriors in America will achieve more if they follow the Igbos’ path and ignore the politics of grievance.

Joseph Solis-Mullen

While the economic sanctions against Russia are helping to impoverish people in that country, they are doing a lot of damage elsewhere too.