Mises Wire

The concluding phase of credit expansion before the credit crisis is now about to begin.

Is it possible to represent a constituency of people who hold varying and diverse opinions without betraying some of those same constituents?

We're in a boom period, but housing construction is scant — which is making housing less affordable.

Civil war was inevitable — because Lincoln made sure it was inevitable.

Keynesism—the philosophy of big government spending, deficit financing, and continuous inflation—dominates nearly every government in the world.

Iowa's new restrictions on abortion offer the federal courts a new chance to take federalism and decentralization seriously. 

On Indian reservations in America, there is a sickening lack of economic opportunity partly because of a lack of political autonomy and private property. 

The most sure way to expand the supply of high quality health care is to defend the right of any consumer and any physician to enter into a voluntary exchange.

Thanks to markets, our unchanging desires are being satisfied more and more effectively over time.

Private foundations and philanthropists have been key factors in supporting free-market academic work.