Mises Wire

Daniel Lacalle

The ECB, always happy to repeat the mistakes of Japan, is likely to start new programs of debt monetization for green projects and claim it is a different, radical and new measure.

David Gordon

Paternalism has in recent years made a comeback, but its philosophical foundation is quite flimsy.

Paul A. Cantor

Paul Cantor's new book provides a new look at how the "American dream" is shown in pop culture as offering both hope and frustration.

Joakim Book

Behavioral economists are masters of comparing apples to oranges and dressing up incorrect statements in fancy language and mathematics.

Ryan McMaken

If governments really want to help former criminals get jobs, they should stop turning so many small-time offenses into crimes.

Laurence M. Vance

To prohibit discrimination in employment is to infringe upon freedom of association, freedom of thought, private property, and freedom in general.

Jean Vilbert

For many Brazilian voters, Jair Bolsonaro offered a chance to break with decades of failed economic policies. Time will tell if they were right.

Jeff Deist

It is up to us to reconsider Misesian liberal nationalism for the twenty-first century and create a vision for the present and beyond.

Ryan McMaken

School children learn that there are three branches of government. In actual practice, there is a fourth branch, the permanent bureaucracy which includes legions of civilian and military agents, officers, and administrators committed to protecting their own interests.

Antony Sammeroff

Many advocates claim government intervention is necessary because markets are too unstable. The real instability, however, comes from the immense uncertainty over what government will do next with its vast and arbitrary power.