Mises Wire

One group uses natural resources to increase human wealth through peaceful means. And then others use the power of the state to steal some of that wealth for themselves.

Democratic socialists are committed to destroying the voluntary and naturally-occurring relationships that develop in the marketplace among consenting human beings. They do it through relentless wealth redistribution programs.

Central bankers like Alan Greenspan seem to think central bankers can be trusted to act with restraint. That's a risky plan, especially given that true and reliable constraints could be put on the money supply by adopting commodity money.

"Libertarianism" is very much a part of what is now known as "classical" liberalism — the influential free-market ideology of the nineteenth century whose effects and legacy are still felt today.

Rising property values are nice for those who own property, but they raise the barriers to home ownership and business startups for everybody else.

While it’s easy to see how much we’re spending over there, it’s harder to see what we could be doing with all of those resources if we weren’t creating more problems abroad. We need to transform the way we think about our foreign policy and take Bastiat’s cue to try to “see the unseen.”

If Austrian economics seems daunting, just read Hazlitt.

Central banks have been at the center of the world's rapidly inflating housing prices.

These are the two major policies of financial repression currently in use: negative interest rates and quantitative easing.

Activists who genuinely believe the world faces catastrophe should give serious consideration to David Henderson’s reasons for thinking a carbon tax might be a false “solution."