Mises Wire

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

The Austrian school has always been a very international movement, and the Mises Institute works to uphold that tradition.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.