Mises Wire

Although most of Europe has long forgotten Misesian thinking, Prince Michael of Liechtenstein is an exception.

Progressives have distinguished themselves in the past half century by being against progress. That trend is unlikely to change.

Leonard Read's famous "I, Pencil" explained the workings of the market in terms of the creation of a simple pencil. However, we should not forget that the reviled fossil fuels are involved at every turn.

The seventy-fifth-anniversary celebration of the British National Health Service masked the real failures of this system, one that only can become worse over time.

Yellow Trucking Company has filed for bankruptcy and ceases to exist as a viable firm. Much of the blame is due to the Teamsters Union which has a long a violent history.

Neither Oppenheimer nor the discussion sparked by it has explored one of the most important reasons for the continued existence of nuclear weapons: the profits it yields America’s massive nuclear-industrial complex.

Join the Mises Institute, Dr. Peter McCullough, and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty for the Medical Freedom Summit!

Murray Rothbard wrote that egalitarianism was a war against nature. Statism has become a war against reality.

The simplest action of economics—beneficially mutual voluntary exchange—is also its most profound. People serve each other while improving their own lot in life.

The recent actions of the Federal Reserve are reminiscent of central bank activities in wartime.