Mises Wire

William L. Anderson

Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro has condemned multi-billion-dollar investments by BMW in South Carolina as “bad for our economics.” The comments reflect a greater ignorance of capital goods by so-called economic experts.

Richard Martin

Tariff supporters claim that implementing tariffs will result in new jobs at home. What they fail to point out is that many people depend upon imports for work. The tariffs on Canadian aluminum imports are a case in point.

Connor O'Keeffe

While President Trump‘s tariffs certainly are causing economic harm, they alone could not cause a recession had there not already been years of artificial credit expansion.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The presidency—by which I mean the executive State—is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts.

Daniel Lacalle

If devaluing the currency was a real measure of competitiveness, Argentina and Venezuela would be the most competitive nations on the planet.

Paul F. Cwik

Frederic Bastiat is an often unsung hero of 19th-century economic thought. His lessons on freedom and trade are timeless and what he wrote nearly two centuries ago is still relevant today.

Wanjiru Njoya

Calhoun emphasized the principle that the states were sovereign and independent and not merely the creation of the federal government.

George Ford Smith

President Trump‘s recent assertions that the Fed should lower the discount rate puts him squarely in the middle of Fed politics and exposes the messy truth that the Fed is not an independent group of experts but rather a tool of the political system.