Mises Wire

Christopher Paige

Because government officials do not worry about the consequences of making mistakes, the government should not be permitted to regulate anything as important as vaccines.

Daniel Lacalle

There is an undeniable negative trend in European employment and wages that is a direct consequence of constantly increasing intervention in the economy.

André Marques

The imposition of minimum wages harms the economy, although there are nuances in how much harm they cause. It is better not to impose minimum wages at all.

George Ford Smith

All too often we are told that government employment equals selflessness and working for profit constitutes greed. It's time to reassess the meaning of certain words.

Michael Rectenwald

The leaders of the World Economic Forum have a wonderful future planned for all of us. They just don't plan to share in our misery.

Ryan McMaken

A recession looks more likely every day, and the latest sign of this is slowing price growth in producer prices. After all, price inflation usually slows as the economy weakens and consumers run out of easy money.

Lipton Matthews

Hindered by government in their home country, Chinese entrepreneurs have excelled overseas.

Daniel Lacalle

The only reason central banks buy gold is to protect their balance sheets from their own monetary destruction programs; they have no choice but to do so.

Jeff Deist

All people of goodwill have an obligation to fight the escalation of politics in American life. 

Alex J. Pollock Paul H. Kupiec

At current interest rates, the Fed’s operating losses will impact the federal budget for years, requiring new tax revenues to offset the continuing loss of billions of dollars in the Fed’s former remittances to the US Treasury.