Mises Wire

Blaine Conzatti
Higher energy costs mean less money for raising wages for workers, hiring new employees, purchasing more inventory, or investing in capital.
Ludwig von Mises
Economics has shown the alleged blessings of an abundance of money are the outcome of crass errors in reasoning.
Ryan McMaken
Local governments could go to the taxpayers and ask for more revenue to fight crime. But, it's much easier to seize it from innocent suspects instead.
Chris Calton
Before endorsing a legal system, libertarians must first figure out what justice is. The natural-law framework is one way of figuring this out.
Charles Hugh Smith

If the debt burden is large enough, at some point, even a 0.1% interest rate becomes unaffordable.

David Gordon
If a person makes a lot of money through "luck" perhaps the most philosophically rigorous answer is simply this: "so what?"
Tho Bishop
Recent history shows that both force and money are impotent against memes.
C.Jay Engel

Tim Duy pretends that rising interest rates is an example of an excessive Fed, but overlooks the true monetary excesses of monetary expansion.

Douglas French
Is buying land a good idea? It's a lot more complicated than simply declaring "buy land, they aren't making it anymore."
Paul Driessen
Wind and solar are simply a bad deal for consumers, workers and the environment. Another example of government policy having nothing to do with reality.