Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

The Fed's policies over the past decade have resulted in a rapidly widening wealth and income inequality.

William D. Hartung

Trump has proposed the "Space Force" as a brand new and costly military branch and bureaucracy. The reaction to his plan helps illustrate the complexity of military politics in Washington.

T. Norman Van Cott

If modern claims about the harm of free trade are true, then Lincoln must have been helping the Confederacy with his military blockade.

Timothy D. Terrell

Unfortunately, the economics Nobel this year neglects the problems at the heart of the State — the government failures that pollute and impoverish.

Frank Shostak

All the sophisticated quantitative methods by themselves can't help us understand the cause-and-effect of what's behind the boom-and-bust cycle.    

Alice Salles

No one is discussing Kavanaugh's awful record on the Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, the media is sending a terrible message to women.

Robert P. Murphy

The Austrian story fits the facts of the housing boom—and bust—much better than the preferred narrative of Market Monetarists.

Antony P. Mueller

Without fundamental reforms towards a market economy, the future of Brazil looks bleak.

Ryan McMaken

Bad ideas succeed in politics because those ideas were taught and pushed in educational and cultural institutions first.