Mises Wire

America's success stems from its limitation of state power. Unfortunately, it's not clear that Donald Trump realizes this.

Trump's upset win provides no mandate and does not translate into any general approval for the candidate's agenda.

The states control over deciding who drives and how becomes a lot less relevant in a world of autonomous cars.

We are confident claiming that, true to his character, Mises would firmly defend free trade and peace against all their opponents on the left and right.

Close elections are decided not by counting votes but by lawsuits and judges. But, we'll then be told it's the will of "the people."

We must resist those who are preaching "interventionism-lite" and calling it a real alternative.

As always in an election year, the public clamors for more jobs. But really, they are clamoring for more, newer, and better stuff.

Protectionism is about giving consumers and ordinary people fewer choices while making them pay more for goods and services.

This is the moment liberty-minded people have been waiting for — the biggest political and social upheaval since the 1960s.

Candidates rarely win votes from more than a small fraction of the population, and yet this meager performance is said to be a "mandate."