Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

The Soviet regime relentlessly expanded the money supply. To prevent inflation, the regime then created shortages through price controls and economic stagnation. 

Yash Dubey

Among Mises's contributions was his doctrine of consumer sovereignty in a free market.

The US Supreme Court has heard arguments for and against affirmative action in higher education admissions. Government needs to get out of the racial discrimination business altogether.

Muneeb Sikander

Pakistan, like so many other countries, is seeing inflation close to spiraling out of control. As for finding causes, monetary authorities should look in the mirror.

Joseph T. Salerno

When communism fell with the USSR, Murray Rothbard realized that the greater threat to liberty was social democracy. Events of the past few years have proven him correct.

Per Bylund

After praising Mises for his work on socialism, Tyler Cowen goes on to claim Human Action is "cranky and dogmatic." "Brilliant and insightful" would have been more truthful.

Łukasz Jasiński

Government programs like Medicare are called insurance, yet they are anything but. There is a difference between public and private plans.

Ryan McMaken

Last year, Powell was full of confidence. Now what we have from the Fed and FOMC are increasingly vague statements about "soft landings" and inflation. 

Gary Richied

The Ponzi game known as selling US government debt is nearing its end. The seller is running out of suckers.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

At a time when inflation once again ravages the dollar, we recall Murray Rothbard's wisdom in his article "The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar."