Mises Wire

Mises U students share what they most look forward to during the "best week of the year."

Mainstream economists are quick to claim that environmental problems are caused by "market failure" that can be "fixed" by government intervention. However, the intervention itself is the problem.

Modern socialism is based upon state interference in normal human relationships, economic and otherwise. It is as disastrous as the older state-planning model.

"In all matters of government the State tolerates no intermediate agent between itself and the people, and in general business it directs the people by its own immediate influence." 

Adults tell young people to follow their dreams, but one cannot follow one's vision without realizing what it takes to get there.

At a time when ethnic politics were tearing Europe apart, Ludwig von Mises believed that such ethnic devotion did more harm than good.

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The East German secret police, the Stasi, developed the art of mass surveillance using pre-digital  methods. Modern tech now makes the job a lot easier. 

According to progressive elites, it is terrorism if consumers boycott businesses because of their leftist policies.

By corrupting the meaning of inflation, mainstream economists have given a false picture of what happens when monetary authorities expand the money supply. Mises and Rothbard understood.