Mises Wire

Tho Bishop

The similar challenges facing America and Brazil, including concerns about the state of their democracies, is worthy of exploration, as is the global response to the protest and what that response means for those opposed to the current “neoliberal” international order.

Ryan McMaken

The constitution has not protected our natural rights, nor did it prevent the US from becoming a blood-soaked failed state a mere 73 years after the constitution was ratified. 

Stephen Apolito

Keynesian economists fantasize that a market economy cannot "gain traction" without "stimulus" schemes from the government. In the end, the only thing stimulated are inflation and recession.

Ryan McMaken

It's only a good time to be a worker in America if one confuses falling real wages and falling full-time employment with robust employment conditions. 

Jeffery L. Degner

Socialists don't just want to take your property; they also are demanding control of your children and loved ones.

Antony Sammeroff

Does the regulatory system help guarantee safe and effective drugs? Does the system protect drug consumers? Court cases tell us otherwise.

George Ford Smith

In a market economy, gold is sound money. There is no need for monetary authorities when gold rules.

Lipton Matthews

Progressives claim that poor nations are that way because wealthy nations exploit them through the capitalist system. Cultural institutions, it turns out, are the most important indicators of wealth and poverty.

Benjamin Seevers

The Federal Trade Commission seeks an anti-trust judgment against Microsoft for its move to acquire Activision. Like all other anti-trust action, this one has no economic merits.