Mises Wire

Kevin Van Elswyk

Student debt is a huge social problem, but the reason is that higher education costs themselves have become a major problem and are a financial burden whose costs outweigh its benefits.

J.W. Rich

Speculators are reviled in the media and by politicians and academics. Yet the speculators are the ones taking risks to ensure the rest of us can have more economic certainty.

Mises Institute

Students share their experiences at Mises University.

Ryan McMaken

In this new age of decentralized and democratized content creation, union members' demands may simply be based on wishful thinking for a bygone era.

Yash Dubey

In 1944, F.A. Hayek's best-selling book, The Road to Serfdom, warned the West that the "free" nations would lose their freedom as government expanded. He was right.

Connor O'Keeffe

Social democrats are so desperate to cast off limits on government that they'll embrace anything that justifies their ambitions. So they invent theories of money that are very, very wrong.  

Ryan McMaken

An immigration system based on sponsorship, bonding, and a reduction in the use of public resources would allow the private sector to play a bigger role in which immigrants come here, and which ones stay.

Benjamin Seevers

Forcing the minimum wage above the real market wage causes more unemployment. Small businesses suffer from these mandates as do the least productive workers. 

George Ford Smith

Rothbard on the American Revolution: "There was no particular need for the formal trappings and permanent investing of a centralized government, even for victory in war."

Mises Institute

This year we're sharing Mises U students' perspectives as they go through the program. Here's what they had to say after the first day of lectures.