Mises Wire

Madhusudan Raj

Progressives are claiming that corporate profits are one of the causes of inflation. However, if inflation increases consumer prices, it also causes production costs to rise. That is not a recipe for profitability.

David Gordon

While Mises was a utilitarian, he believed people acted to improve their lot because of a felt uneasiness that could be rectified through free markets.

Karl Streitel

In many schools around the country, students deal with both physical and emotional aggression each day such that school becomes more about surviving than thriving.

Ryan McMaken

The naïve view of American frontier expansion generally leaves out most of the details about how the US's central government—from the early nineteenth century onward—took a very keen interest in how the American frontier was settled, and by whom.

Aaron Sobczak

Politicians, bolstered by economic quackery such as modern monetary theory, believe they face no fiscal constraints as they impose their visions upon us. But costs are real things and economic, reality sooner or later sets in.