Mises Wire

Africa has plenty of hard workers and plenty of natural resources. But private property is not secure there, which means few are willing to invest their capital there.

Readers will close the volume with admiration for Kirzner’s devotion to Austrian economics, immense learning, and dialectical skill

The best EU is an EU in which free and sovereign nation-states voluntarily come together to cooperate.

Italian fascism and German national socialism were committed to abolishing private property in practice, if not in name.

The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be performed with regard to human action.

Environmental activists in US politics are making it quite clear that their goal is nothing short of a socialist economic revolution.

The trade deficit has increased since President Trump took office, consumer prices are rising, and American industries are losing their competitiveness on the world stage.

"Digital cash" is the latest terrible idea from those who want to give central banks more power to meddle in the economy.

Even if Trump and Xi both desire to reduce America's trade deficit with China, it's unlikely it will shrink in the short term.

Virtually all laws involve "legislating morality." When people use this phrase they often really just mean "I want laws to back my version of morality, not yours."