Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

The "experts" intend to keep locking populations down again and again until there's a vaccine. But what if there's no vaccine coming?

William D. Hartung

As 20 million Americans fall into unemployment, no crisis is so big that anyone in Washington would think of cutting military spending, including dollars spent on military gear for cops.

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

Thanks to central banks, people now believe the myth that it is possible to shut down the economy and everything will be fine if we just print a lot of new money.  

Walter Block

Does Trump not realize that if people do not get back to work, there will be no recovery at all?

Antony P. Mueller

The global "elites" of the World Economic Forum seek a "Great Reset" that will usher in a new and far more powerful technocracy defined by central planning and the end of freedom as we know it.

Matthew Noyes

The highly regulated, protectionist Japanese economy, and an overall collectivist culture, leaves little room for flexibility in executive pay. This makes Japanese businesses less competitive, and work life more miserable.

Alasdair Macleod

Economic growth results from increasing production, and the money supply is always sufficient to foster exchange. The boom-bust cycle only occurs when production is distorted by a growing money supply.

Daniel Lacalle

Debt matters, even if interest rates are low. Increasing debt and spending means lower growth and weaker real wages in the future.

David Gordon

Economist James Buchanan thinks that a state is necessary, because people wouldn't be able to agree on the boundaries of their rights.

Brendan Brown

If there is a new dawn, it is for the Sinicization of Europe—China-style stimulus administered alongside a severely ailing financial system kept whole by widespread financial and monetary repression.