Mises Wire

The recent controversy over Jeff Bezos has spawned an interesting debate among free-market economists on whether blackmail should be legalized.

Steven Kates has composed a modern version of Leonard Read’s classic essay “I, Pencil.”

Programs like Medicare are a great deal for early participants, but they create huge liabilities for taxpayers later down the line.

New research is sparking fears that junk debt could trigger a repeat of the 2008 crash.

When the topic involves poverty, bank failures, unemployment or inequality, the advocates of fashionable policy implore us to take immediate action, almost regardless of the costs down the line. Enter climate change and this seemingly changes everything.

With roads, it is time to give private enterprise a chance.

Oskar Lange was a Marxist economist and intellectual opponent of Mises. Late in his career, he sought to merge praxeology and Marxism. 

Angela Merkel has caused cultural blowback with seemingly unchecked migrant flows while simultaneously harming business with higher taxes and more anti-business regulation. The results have not been great.

Citizenship based on a person's current location is a long and well-established principle in the Americas. But this is not the case back in Europe.

All too often, many want governments to do things to others we wouldn't want to have done to us.