Mises Wire

Thomas Paine, whose fiery essay "Common Sense" made a case for the American Revolution, is a much-neglected American founder.

America's military technocrats (a.k.a. "generals") specialize in losing wars and also losing your money. Naturally, Congress wants to give them even more taxpayer cash.

An upcoming recession likely will lead to falling asset prices. But these price decreases do not cause recessions, but rather are a result of them.

Mises and Hayek used "classical liberal” to distinguish themselves from the Left. Today the term is used primarily to appease the Left.

The US monetary system is out of sorts and out of control. The authors show a path back from the inflation brink to monetary soundness.

The January 6 trials remind us violence against a person or property should be prosecuted as exactly that, and not as a special category of crime against the regime.

From March 2022 to November, the number of total employed persons has only increased by 12,000 people meaning there are fewer employed people now than before the covid panic.

It has been a hundred years since Mises published Socialism. It is more relevant than ever.

While high-quality automobiles and other manufactured goods are being produced in the Southeast, northeastern states like New York are falling behind, thanks to progressive governance.

Economist Christopher Coyne of George Mason University uses economic logic to expose the follies of militaristic US policies overseas.