Mises Wire

The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.

President Trump’s plan to “rebuild” Ukraine following the destruction from warfare with Russia is a combination of Keynesianism and crony capitalism.

While Brazil calls itself a constitutional democracy that has a market economy, private property and markets themselves are subject to conditions set by the government itself.

Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals.

Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Barro's reasoning and finds it sound.

Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property, but this is mistaken and the evidence is within Acts itself.

Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.

There are two kinds of political movements: 1. Those that are “compromising” and pose no real threat to the elites. 2. The groups that actually oppose the status quo but are kept out of power.

The Trump administration (like the Biden White House before it) insists that it has inflation under control, pointing to the CPI. However, other informal measures show inflation to be much higher than the CPI claims.