Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

If the media cared much about the plight of small business owners, we'd see many more stories about how government regulations, taxes, and mandates make life more difficult for both owners and their employees.

James Bovard

In 1944, Roosevelt revealed that the original Bill of Rights had “proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.” So he proposed to replace it with something far worse.

András Tóth

Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to make France more free and more competitive. But his failed tax increase on gasoline shows just how fragile reform attempts are in France.

José Niño

Venezuelans are defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties and economic livelihood.

Daniel Lacalle

Argentina has all the ingredients to be a global leading economy, but current policy makes the country a promise that always disappoints. 

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

100 years ago, coordination among central banks was engineered to speed up the renunciation of the gold standard, and greatly enlarge the freedom of all central banks to inflate money supplies.

Zachary Yost

One of the world's most militaristic Islamic dictatorships — Saudi Arabia — lobbies heavily in Washington to increase US military spending — and the Saudis are rewarded handsomely for their efforts.

William L. Anderson

Paul Krugman is now claiming the fact the US is not a 100% free-market economy justifies ever-higher taxes on "the rich."

Antony P. Mueller

From unemployment, to immigration, to banking, many of Angela Merkel's policies have planted ticking time bombs in the German economy and in German politics.

Mark Thornton

If we all still lived like cavemen, we'd have hardly any inequality at all. But that's not exactly something to aspire to.