Mises Wire

Mises Institute

The recent lackluster jobs data suggests we've reached the limits of monetary policy.

Ryan McMaken

Small boarding houses once provided affordable housing for a large number of working-class Americans. They're mostly illegal now.

Ludwig von Mises

From The Quotable Mises, Ludwig von Mises's best nine quotes on gold and the gold standard.

Ryan McMaken

The claim is made that drug use is immoral, so must therefore be illegal. Should we outlaw every other immoral activity also?

Paul-Martin Foss

The EU's ending of the production of €500 bills changes the equation for how the bills will be valued.

Matthew McCaffrey

Building a freer society means winning the battle of ideas, not the empty contests put on by the central government every four years.

Laurence M. Vance

James Champlin, a 19th-century critic of protectionism, anticipated many of the free-trade insights of the Austrian school.

Mises Institute

This talk, delivered by Lew Rockwell at a memorial service for Murray Rothbard, gives a great perspective on Rothbard's life, work, influence, courage, and personality.

Ryan McMaken

If we want to help young men become more productive and employable, we must end minimum wages and the drug war.