Mises Wire

Every law must ultimately be enforced using the police power of the state. For those who resist, this means violent arrest and imprisonment. Or worse.

The conventional view is that new money creation is no problem so long as the demand for money is increasing. The conventional view is wrong.

There's more saving and less spending. This would bring deflation, but there's a catch: we're making less stuff, which means more money chasing fewer goods.

President Bill Clinton’s favorite "freedom fighter" in Kosovo just got indicted for mass murder, torture, kidnapping, and other crimes against humanity.

DiLorenzo demolishes the mythological view that Lincoln's primary motive for opposing secession in 1861 was his distaste for slavery. 

Berns thinks America has a fundamental problem: he believes not enough people in America are willing to sacrifice their lives to the state.

Protectionism is often most damaging when it prevents entrepreneurs from accessing products and services that would have increased domestic capital and worker productivity. The result is poorer workers and less productive domestic industry.

More threatened COVID lockdowns, and thus more bailouts and explosions of deficit spending, do not bode well for the global economy. 

False positives and false negatives remain a very large problem. Our current testing regime has alarmed the planet without contributing a health benefit.

Paul Krugman famously predicted in 1998 that the internet would prove to be no more important than the fax machine. This error proceeds straight from his lack of economic understanding.