Mises Wire

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.    

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.

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

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.

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

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.