Mises Wire

Timothy D. Terrell
The implications of the Reformation are more than ecclesiastical or theological. They include shifts in economic thought as well.
Scott McPherson
A major cultural shift is taking place. More than ever, Americans are arming themselves in the modern era.

Switzerland employs an insurance and voucher based healthcare system that is primarily private, and highly effective.

Joseph T. Salerno
The market and its configuration at any moment in time is to be explained by the human values and choices which give rise to these exchanges.
Mark Thornton
In a free market, consumers hold the power to punish producers for pushing dangerous products. But today, the FDA has short-circuited that market.
Ryan McMaken
At this point, does anyone believe the Fed is willing to do anything that might really spook markets?
Daniel Lacalle
China has added more debt in the first nine months of 2017 than the US, Japan and the EU combined.
Ryan McMaken
If the US faces a crisis in tax revenues, forced labor via conscription will suddenly become a very attractive option. So why not include women?
Ilana Mercer
John McCain's hatred of Donald Trump has driven America's most ardent warmonger to question the American intervention in Niger. And that's a good thing.
John Chapman

The two-percent inflation goal is now being modified to allow for even higher inflation goals in the short term.