Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

Since 2019, the total national debt has increased by 25 percent, but interest paid on the debt has increased by 75 percent. More specifically, interest on the debt came in at nearly $573 billion in 2019, but it will top $1 trillion in 2024. 

Ryan McMaken

It is no coincidence that the boom in mass-produced goods made specifically for children, "coincided closely with the rise of the middle-classes, industry, and capitalism." 

Lipton Matthews

Jamaicans are willing to accept authoritarian behavior from the state in the name of rejecting colonialism.

David Gordon

Some critics of the market claim that markets are effective only under the near-impossible conditions of perfect competition, among other criticisms. Deirdre McCloskey addresses these issues and more, as David Gordon points out in this review.

Artis Shepherd

Since government regulates nearly everything, it is not surprising that regulations often prohibit the sale and consumption of raw milk. Like many other regulations, these prohibitions reflect political favoritism, not health science.

Benjamin Seevers

Nippon Steel's proposal to merge with US Steel is meeting opposition from the usual suspects in Washington, not to mention Tucker Carlson. Their hysteria is off the charts.

Tho Bishop

It would be a mistake for conservatives to believe their team will bail out "their guy." In the end, most of those wearing robes are closer to their enemies than their friends.

Ryan McMaken

Residential property taxes attack one of the most fundamental needs and assets in a person's life—i.e., housing—in a way the income tax does not. As the central bank's monetary inflation drives up home prices, property tax burdens increase as well. 

Joakim Book

Many cities and states in this country have been tearing down or destroying monuments because they represent part of a past that progressives and leftists believe should not have existed. Yet each time we tear down something, we potentially lose part of an important heritage.

Connor O'Keeffe

In a Columbia Journalism Review article, NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger claimed his newspaper embodies “journalistic independence.” But a recent article by James Bennet, a former NYT editor, reveals the paper does little more than provide progressive propaganda.