Mises Wire

Daniel Lacalle

Printing and raising taxes are not social policies. It is profoundly anti-social, as it destroys the middle class and makes the economy weaker. Raising the debt ceiling is also extremely negative for the middle class because it means more taxes.

Lipton Matthews

People are innovative—if government doesn't get in the way. Entrepreneurs in developing countries find alternatives for people cut off from commercial banking services.

Gary Galles

When we see real bipartisan action in Congress, it usually is for the worst.

Ryan McMaken

The authors of the Federalist Papers claimed a strong central government was needed because republics are prone to "anarchy." The Dutch and Swiss examples show they were wrong. 

Murray N. Rothbard

The lack of spending during a shutdown wouldn't be a problem if the government hadn't already extracted so much wealth from the private sector to begin with.

George Ford Smith

Judge Andrew Napolitano looks at the history of government and race relations in our nation's history. It's not a pleasant or uplifting story.

Daniel Sterbuleac

When Jimmy Donaldson, better known on YouTube as MrBeast, paid for a thousand people to have cataract surgery, the usual suspects in the media panned him and questioned his motives.

David Gordon

The US government's push for digital money does not aim to make transactions easier. Rather, it seeks the power to control money and the people that use it.

Jeff Deist

Money is simple. The political program of monetary "policy" is not.