Mises Wire

Ludwig von Mises

One of the main shortcomings of the mathematical economists is that they deal with a "static state" as if it were something really existing.

Grover Cleveland

And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval ... [for] the appropriation of public funds...

Chris Calton

It is a common fallacy that if a person is successful in business, they will be a good politician. This is dangerously naive.

Richard M. Ebeling

There is much to learn about Ludwig von Mises form his writings on economic conflicts of those years between the two World Wars.

Lee Friday

The medical establishment has done its best to crush market-oriented strategies to make healthcare more affordable. 

Frank Shostak

Central banks can put in motion a prolonged deviation of expectations from the facts of reality. But they can't keep it up forever. 

Antony P. Mueller

There's no reason to believe choosing representatives through a lottery system or "by chance" is worse than what we have now. 

Henry Hazlitt

I hope to correct a persistent misunderstanding about Mencken's economic and political ideas.

Laurence M. Vance

With a real free market, how a business conducts itself is not the concern of government, but the concern of consumers.

Ryan McMaken

From free trade to cutting welfare, here are four ways to improve immigration policy that don't make government more intrusive in our lives.