Mises Wire

Lipton Matthews

Governments are demanding there be "proportional" representation of women in professions that women historically have avoided. Those efforts will be unsuccessful.

Mihai Macovei

Supporters of US microchip policy against China claim the policy is "strategic," but in reality, it is old-fashioned protectionism with all the usual economic damage.

David Gordon

Is there a case to be made for universal basic income? David Gordon examines the pro-UBI arguments by philosopher Matt Zwolinski.

Rabbi Menashe Sasson

The Pilgrims tried socialism at Plymouth. After two years, they returned to private enterprise. Likewise, Israel was founded as a socialist state but has back turned toward free markets.

Ryan McMaken

For families and friends gathering for Thanksgiving this year, many will assemble in a room called the "dining room." This is a modern luxury made possible by the bourgeois merchants of old.

Kevin Dowd

The woes of Britain's financial sector have been exacerbated by UK financial regulators' failures.

Mark Thornton

Ending the string of economic crises that have occurred the past two decades will happen only when economies can depend upon sound money.

Nathaniel Brown

Federal Reserve officials, for all of their alleged wisdom and education, have a knowledge problem. Hayek and other Austrians could have told them their grandiose plans will fail.

George Ford Smith

All too often, elite mainstream economists' policy recommendations are built on fallacies. We shouldn't listen.