Mises Wire

Daniel Lacalle
China has added more debt in the first nine months of 2017 than the US, Japan and the EU combined.
Ryan McMaken
If the US faces a crisis in tax revenues, forced labor via conscription will suddenly become a very attractive option. So why not include women?
Ilana Mercer
John McCain's hatred of Donald Trump has driven America's most ardent warmonger to question the American intervention in Niger. And that's a good thing.
John Chapman

The two-percent inflation goal is now being modified to allow for even higher inflation goals in the short term.

Joseph T. Salerno
The very concept of an isolated human being is a fiction, a useful mental construct for social theory, but impossible of realization in history.
Douglas French
No drug czar is needed, and the DEA can go home as well. People will self-medicate one way or another, with the government's blessing or without.
Frank Shostak
The best criteria for selecting a, economic model is not how well it worked in the past — but whether it is theoretically sound.
James Bovard

The FBI’s vast power and pervasive secrecy guarantee that more FBI scandals are just around the bend.

Is it possible to write a constitution that truly limits the powers of the state?