Mises Wire

Joseph T. Salerno
Economic calculation itself is not the means of acquiring knowledge, but the very prerequisite of rational action within society.
Timothy D. Terrell
The implications of the Reformation are more than ecclesiastical or theological. They include shifts in economic thought as well.
Scott McPherson
A major cultural shift is taking place. More than ever, Americans are arming themselves in the modern era.
Joseph T. Salerno
The market and its configuration at any moment in time is to be explained by the human values and choices which give rise to these exchanges.
Mark Thornton
In a free market, consumers hold the power to punish producers for pushing dangerous products. But today, the FDA has short-circuited that market.

Switzerland employs an insurance and voucher based healthcare system that is primarily private, and highly effective.

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.
Ryan McMaken
At this point, does anyone believe the Fed is willing to do anything that might really spook markets?
Daniel Lacalle
China has added more debt in the first nine months of 2017 than the US, Japan and the EU combined.