Mises Wire

Robert P. Murphy

There is a growing drumbeat from some high-profile economists to reassure Americans that large increases in income and wealth taxes won’t distort labor markets. Yet much of their arguments are very misleading.

Ryan McMaken

During October 2019, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 4.95 percent. That's up from September's rate of 3.10 percent, and was up from October 2018's rate of 3.49 percent.

Joakim Book

Behavioral economists are masters of comparing apples to oranges and dressing up incorrect statements in fancy language and mathematics.

Ryan McMaken

If governments really want to help former criminals get jobs, they should stop turning so many small-time offenses into crimes.

David Gordon

Paternalism has in recent years made a comeback, but its philosophical foundation is quite flimsy.

Paul A. Cantor

Paul Cantor's new book provides a new look at how the "American dream" is shown in pop culture as offering both hope and frustration.

Jean Vilbert

For many Brazilian voters, Jair Bolsonaro offered a chance to break with decades of failed economic policies. Time will tell if they were right.

Laurence M. Vance

To prohibit discrimination in employment is to infringe upon freedom of association, freedom of thought, private property, and freedom in general.

David Gordon

Today's neoconservatives have found common cause with the Left in destroying those who disagree with them. In fact, this habit of denying a forum to any and all dissenters has a long tradition in the conservative movement.

Jeff Deist

It is up to us to reconsider Misesian liberal nationalism for the twenty-first century and create a vision for the present and beyond.