Mises Wire

Gary Galles

Those pushing Medicare for All rely on the presumption that it will generate huge administrative efficiencies. But they greatly underestimate the program's real administrative cost.

Daniel Lacalle

This trade deal is not only vague, conditional and temporary — it will fail to stop the global economic slowdown.

Ryan McMaken

French protests over a new climate-change-inspired fuel tax highlight high costs imposed on ordinary people by climate-change policies.

Jorge Carrasco

Brazil's new president has made many statements favorable to many pro-market reforms. But will he focus on economic reforms or the social conservatism favored by many of his supporters?

Ruth Shallcross Maynard

Conservation will take place where individuals are allowed to seek solutions. Necessity is the mother not only of invention but of conservation as well.

Ryan McMaken

If the world's most popular historical sites are to be preserved from overuse by tourists, ownership of these places will need to be more forcefully established, and access more carefully controlled.

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Alan Mosley

Former government prosecutor and current congressman Eric Swalwell would love the chance to prosecute and imprison millions of Americans who fail to turn in their guns.

Mike Holly

Most major sectors in the US economy have been distorted by government policies pushing monopolies and limiting competition.

Gregory Morin

San Francisco's public defecation problem is a symptom of its homelessness problem — a problem made far worse by government housing regulations.