Mises Wire

Daniel Lacalle

The Fed doesn't want to admit that new federal debt is significantly higher than private sector demand, and the Fed is more concerned about a bond market meltdown than price inflation. 

Wanjiru Njoya

What are property rights and how do we define them? The late Butler Shaffer argued that they come from our “will to own.”

Marcel Dumas Gautreau

The decades of American and European intervention in Africa are coming to an end, and things are even worse for American interests there. Perhaps overthrowing governments and trying to dictate political outcomes wasn’t a good idea.

Benjamin Williams

Despite the accusations that Javier Milei is a fascist in libertarian clothes, many of his reforms have been successful in reversing some of the damage done to Argentina's economy by real fascists.

Aaron Sobczak

Somalia is a country invented by European intervention. The region known as Somaliland ought to be free to secede from this imperialist creation. 

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

State-provided gratuitousness is not only sterile but positively harmful, the exact opposite of the gratuitous goods provided by free and responsible citizens. The truth is that generosity and abundance flourish in a free economy.

Douglas French

Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation.