Mises Wire

If modern claims about the harm of free trade are true, then Lincoln must have been helping the Confederacy with his military blockade.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in economics has gone to Yale&#821

Unfortunately, the economics Nobel this year neglects the problems at the heart of the State — the government failures that pollute and impoverish.

All the sophisticated quantitative methods by themselves can't help us understand the cause-and-effect of what's behind the boom-and-bust cycle.    

No one is discussing Kavanaugh's awful record on the Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, the media is sending a terrible message to women.

The Austrian story fits the facts of the housing boom—and bust—much better than the preferred narrative of Market Monetarists.

Without fundamental reforms towards a market economy, the future of Brazil looks bleak.

Bad ideas succeed in politics because those ideas were taught and pushed in educational and cultural institutions first.

Frederic Tudor solved the problems of transporting large amounts of ice over long distances and introducing the citizens of Calcutta to their first taste of ice cream.

Besides the fun of catching Krugman in his flip-flops, his record shows just how weak the empirical case for Keynesian fiscal policy is.