Mises Wire

Gary Galles

June 12 was the day the Virginia Declaration of Rights, penned by George Mason, was ratified by the Fifth Virginia Convention in 1776. And it has pride of place as the first of several declarations of rights in the era.

José Niño

While many have been talking about Venezuela's food shortages,  Cuba is now implementing a rationing program to combat its very own socialism-induced shortages of basic goods.

Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt's review of Man, Economy, and State published in National Review in September, 1962.

Zachary Yost

Many cultural conservatives increasingly succumb to the temptation to call on the state to solve our problems, and to punish our leftist adversaries. But they're making a big mistake.

Robert P. Murphy

The rhetorical framing of "climate change" is far removed from the underlying research. And the real-world costs of "doing something" are rarely considered.

Douglas French

Vikram Mansharamani’s second edition of Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst has all the great insights from the first edition plus a foreword by James Grant.

Walter Block

Austrian economics diverges in several important ways from that followed by our colleagues in the mainstream of the profession.

Frank Shostak

Contrary to popular thinking, the velocity of money does not have a life of its own.

Daniel Lacalle

Monetary policy has gone from being a tool to support fiscal reforms to an excuse for not implementing them.

José Niño

Victories against the drug war have all come first at the local level, and only then does the national government slowly back off its drive to dictate to Americans what they can eat or smoke.