Mises Wire

Chris Calton

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.

Ryan McMaken

With the end of the 2018 fiscal year, we're seeing just how much Donald Trump loves to spend government money.

Noah Mickel

The state of economic science in academia is the reason why Mises University is the most important week of the year.

Hunter Hastings

Through free trade, decentralization, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, the Swiss created a high level of prosperity based on innovation and creative capitalism.

Brian Balfour

The temporary surge in hurricane-related economic activity can in some ways help us understand the effects of the equally-temporary surge in activity related to an economic boom.

Rafael Acevedo

At the end of July 2018, the National Assembly estimated that each week six Venezuelan children die of starvation.

Ryan McMaken

Taken all together, defense spending in Fiscal Year 2019 totals more than the state budget of Texas seven times over.

José Niño

In spite of stringent gun-control measures, Brazil's homicide rates are among the worst in the world. Now there's a movement to let more Brazilians defend themselves with private gun ownership.

Mark Thornton

The real motivations behind using both cubicles and the so-called open-office concept are something different than what we are told.

Zachary Garris

Many public school teachers are earning far more than they would if they were exposed to market demand.