Mises Wire

Ludwig von Mises
Empty talk about the economic power of business aims at obliterating this fundamental distinction between freedom and bondage.
Ryan McMaken
The 2009 fiscal year was a big year for huge increases in federal spending. Unfortunately, it was a bipartisan effort.
Michel Accad, MD
Technology by itself isn't what's making health care so expensive. A more likely cause is government intervention through welfare and regulation.
Mark Thornton
After nine years of unwarranted and irrational monetary policy, some people are taking the current monetary regime as normal and natural.
C.Jay Engel

Janet Yellen testified before Congress and was as bland and predictable as ever: still uncertain, still has no clue what to do.

Russell Lamberti
Say's Law essentially tells us that we produce in order to consume. Once we start thinking we can consume before we produce, we get into trouble.
Tho Bishop
Both taxpayers and health insurers are victims of Obamacare. Why are courts penalizing the former to protect the latter?
C.Jay Engel

There is bubbling tension between the Trump vision and the Bernanke-Yellen monetary regime.

Ryan McMaken
California politicos lied about the cost of the failing Oroville dam, then failed to maintain it properly. But, government will likely escape all blame.
William L. Anderson
Some claim that if socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. This is doubtful since the larger motivation is often political control.