Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

Their successful use of the "surveillance business model" has given Facebook and Google an immense amount of power over the flow of information and who sees it.

Lee Friday

Minor-league hockey players know what they're getting into when they sign their contracts. But now they want the government to overturn their contracts and force a pay raise.

Ryan McMaken

The late George H. W. Bush was instrumental in creating our world of endless war against foreign states that are no threat to the United States.

Antón Chamberlin

While it may seem to many that the capitalist provides no benefit to the market, but without Earnhardt Jr. taking on the function of the entrepreneur, there would be no car to drive, no strategy to call, no wrench to turn.

Gary Galles

Those pushing Medicare for All rely on the presumption that it will generate huge administrative efficiencies. But they greatly underestimate the program's real administrative cost.

Daniel Lacalle

This trade deal is not only vague, conditional and temporary — it will fail to stop the global economic slowdown.

Ryan McMaken

French protests over a new climate-change-inspired fuel tax highlight high costs imposed on ordinary people by climate-change policies.

Alan Mosley

Former government prosecutor and current congressman Eric Swalwell would love the chance to prosecute and imprison millions of Americans who fail to turn in their guns.

Jorge Carrasco

Brazil's new president has made many statements favorable to many pro-market reforms. But will he focus on economic reforms or the social conservatism favored by many of his supporters?

Ruth Shallcross Maynard

Conservation will take place where individuals are allowed to seek solutions. Necessity is the mother not only of invention but of conservation as well.