Mises Wire

Lennart Wagemans

Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity.

Wanjiru Njoya

Economic laws represent the real world. They are not ideologies or objects of worship. These laws are not the product of an ideological wish list but rather explain production and exchange.

Joakim Book

While protecting “intellectual property” has a good sound to it — even among libertarians — such policies are harmful to authentic property rights. We need to pursue another path.

Soham Patil

Mainstream economists often claim that “market failure” is everywhere. However, when one investigates these so-called failures, one has to conclude that government intervention often is behind them.

David Gordon

For all of his freedom-loving rhetoric, it is clear that Woodrow Wilson was one of the most antifreedom presidents in U.S. history.

Michael Rectenwald

The Biden administration’s immigration “policy” is not simply bad governance. It is insane governance.

Kevin Van Elswyk

The Biden administration is determined to do an end run around the courts and ram through yet another student loan forgiveness plan. It is not real “loan forgiveness” but just a massive wealth transfer from lower-income to higher-income groups.

Douglas French

People joke about doctors thinking of themselves as God, but over a century of government control of medical care, the distance between physicians and those they serve has become increasingly large.