Mises Wire

Joakim Book

Nik Bhatia presents a counterintuitive view of how money operates in our current banking system and takes a glimpse into our monetary future.

Ryan McMaken

The White House this week admitted sanctions don't work, but Biden thinks it's fine to shrug and say, "Sure, sanctions have failed, and are also causing food shortages, but that's just the price you little people gotta pay!"

Joakim Book

F.A. Hayek wrote that the "worst get on top" when it comes to government. Nearly eighty years after he wrote those words, nothing has changed.

Michael Rectenwald

The literary accounts and studies of the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and Nazi Germany necessarily failed to grasp the root of the problem—namely, the psychopathological dimension of the inception and development of pathocracy.

Joseph Solis-Mullen

Beijing only ever really wanted Moscow around as a way to balance against Washington. But with the US being seen to overtly seek to punish Beijing, this will now only move it closer to Moscow.

Thorsten Polleit

There are only two ways human cooperation occurs: through voluntary means or through coercion. The free market stands for voluntary cooperation; coercion and violence are the means of the state.

Aleksander Rammos

Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter.

Ryan McMaken

Today's advocates of escalation in Ukraine are embracing an updated version of "Better dead than Red." They think themselves fit to decide for countless millions what's worth dying in a nuclear holocaust for.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

We don't have a duty to evaluate every foreign quarrel and assess who is at fault. We do not have a duty to require leaders of regimes we don’t like to accept existing boundaries of countries as unchangeable.

Joshua Mawhorter

All too often, people accept the state-sponsored "solution" to a perceived problem as the logical choice. But this "solution" really is a non sequitur.