Mises Wire

The Second Amendment is much more than a guarantee of private gun ownership. It was designed to decentralize and weaken the military establishment in the United States.

The Communist Party's big plans for a globally-competititve soccer league have come to naught.

Emerging-market currencies often suffer a as a result of their government's own profligacy. But the US is also actively trying to destabilize some currencies, and setting up a conflict that the US could ultimately lose.

Both at home and abroad, the government causes the problems it says we need more government to solve.

Much of Donald Trump's political rhetoric appears to be premised on "honor ideology" which places reputation and respect from others above all else, even at the cost of self-harm.

The German use of wartime central planning paved the way for full-blown socialism.

Paul Krugman is right to praise Denmark, but he likes the one thing that they’re doing wrong and overlooks all the things they get right.

Octavio Paz, defined government as "the philanthropic ogre," a creature that seemingly wishes to help the unfortunate, but at the same time devours more and more of the nation’s prosperity.

The welfare state has impaired immigrants' success in integrating into and contributing to the Swedish economy.

Liberty means to exercise human rights in any manner a person chooses so long as it does not interfere with the exercise of the rights of others.