Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

Monarchs created Europe's modern states but lost the ability to control them. Then, having grown beyond the tools that helped monarchs turn themselves into absolute rulers, "the state acquired a life of its own."

J.R. MacLeod

Inflation is not a product of corporate greed or rising wages. It is a fraud perpetrated by government authorities that impoverishes average people while enriching elites.

Lipton Matthews

By compensating slave owners for the abolition of slavery, Great Britain ended the scourge of chattel slavery long before it was ended in the Americas.

Lysander Spooner

"Even those who actually voted for the adoption of the Constitution, did not pledge their faith for any specific time; since no specific time was named during which the association should continue."

Frank Shostak

The Fed’s tampering with market signals undermines the process of wealth generation, thereby exerting an upward pressure on the time preference interest rate and the market interest rate.

Patrick Barron

Vaccine mandates imposed by governments violate individual rights and further the coercive powers of the state. They also violate Kantian ethical norms, turning people into vehicles to accomplish the ends of governing elites.

Frank Shostak

The standard Keynesian play is to increase government spending in order to reduce unemployment and increase economic growth. Here's why it consistently fails.

Birsen Filip

Global elites are relentless in their desire to recreate the world in their own image. As they turn toward food production, expect their bungling to cause huge shortages of food and worse.

Per Bylund Ryan McMaken

"Economics is about how we behave, which comes from our personal valuation, in and relative to the physical world."