Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

War dissenters are branded "Putinists" by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly makes one a Putin sympathizer.

Per Bylund

We cannot compare the subjective values of different people, as their experienced satisfactions are personal. It is nonsense to say that Adam likes pears 20 percent more than Beth likes pears.

Alex J. Pollock

The control of money is extremely convenient to governments, especially to have their own central bank to buy their debt when they are out of money.

Zachary Yost

Law Professor David Bernstein looks at the system of racial classifications in the USA and explains why they have been harmful.

Mihai Macovei

After following hyper-Keynesian policies for more than two decades, the Fed is about to create the conditions that Keynesians claimed were impossible: an inflationary recession.

Daniel Lacalle

For the past three decades, the result has been the same: the US economy exits a crisis with significantly more debt, lower employment growth, and slower GDP recovery.

Yash Dubey

Celebrities in Western countries generally support socialism or some sort of collectivism. While they benefit from supporting collectivism, the poor people they claim to care about suffer under it.

Gary Galles

Progressives claim that while they might acknowledge the presence of scarcity, nonetheless, we can reject a "scarcity mindset" because governments can order an end to scarcity through fiat.

David Gordon

Ryan McMaken has made a serious case for secession as a means to counter totalitarianism. David Gordon explains why this is the case.

Joseph Solis-Mullen

Even with near-record inflation, the US dollar still has gained strength relative to other currencies. This does not mean that the Fed has been acting responsibly.