Mises Wire

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.

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

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.

Why do seemingly endless military conflicts persist, despite lacking any constituency beyond the DC beltway?

With printing of the Continental notes in 1775, Webster feared people would think you could finance the Revolutionary War by printing paper money. We should have listened!

Why shouldn’t the rights of economic liberty and private property extend to donating to people who are running for political office?

Lowering quality and destroying health care choices might reduce some "administrative costs," but the real cost to the public of a government healthcare system is much higher than is admitted.