Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

The American public is "unaware" that the homicide rate in the United States has fallen by 49 percent over the past twenty years.

Frank Shostak

Inflation isn't an increase in prices, and deflation isn't what causes economic depressions.

Louis Rouanet

Louis Rouanet compiles some of the best quotes to use against defenders of IP.

Ryan McMaken

The NSA was too busy spying on your family to stop the Orlando gunman. But why aren't night clubs keeping tabs on people who walk in with rifles?

Murray N. Rothbard

The rights of the individual are absolute; but they are property rights.

Ryan McMaken

Evidence continues to pile up against the claim that low-incomes cause obesity thanks to insufficient access to grocery stores.

William L. Anderson

Many Americans now lack even small amounts of savings to deal with life emergencies. This is a triumph for Keynesian economics.

T. Hunt Tooley

A hundred years ago, the crisis of the war was forging a new world organized around war itself.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

The WTO and the EU common market amount to little else than well-organized cliques of protectionist policymakers labeling themselves as free traders.

Mises Institute

The Rothbard Graduate Seminar is underway, and students are gathering for a week of careful study of Mises's Human Action.