Mises Wire

While condemning China's social credit system, American, Canadian, and European progressives are becoming dependent on social credit systems to expand their political and governing power.

It's unlikely that Putin had no idea of the immense costs that he and Russia as a whole would incur in undertaking this war, so he likely believed the alternative would have been even more costly.

By invoking the Emergencies Act, Trudeau has engaged in conduct better suited to authoritarian despots.

A key problem with collective security is the fact that when gangs of states wade into a conflict, they inexorably widen it.

The idea that an athlete—in this case, Eileen Gu—somehow "betrays" her country by playing sports for a foreign team is the worst kind of jingoism.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's heavy-handed crackdown on the protesting truckers and their supporters has exposed a larger agenda of illiberalism by Western governments.

The Ukrainian regime thinks it knows better than husbands and fathers when it comes to caring for their families. But no bureaucrat ought to be allowed to make such a decision. 

The success of Japan after WWII was due entirely to low taxes, an appreciating currency, and a very high personal savings rate. That all changed when the bubble was born in the late 1980s.

Some of the government authoritarians in Ottawa and DC may think they have the upper hand at the moment. As usual, government authoritarians are very shortsighted.

Canada is now freezing the assets of people who dare to protest government power. When the government controls the money and the financial system, human rights mean very little.