Mises Wire

Wanjiru Njoya

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as soldiers in the Confederate army. While the numbers of black Confederate soldiers didn‘t match their northern counterparts, many of them did serve as armed combatants.

Artis Shepherd

Economist Bryan Caplan has held up the United Arab Emirates as an example of how open borders can be successful. Caplan clearly does not understand how immigration works in the UAE.

Ryan McMaken

This might sound radical or extreme, but the US somehow managed to get along for more than 225 years before this department was created.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Elections can have important impacts on the economy, but the most important ones are preceded by some kind of revolution in the world of ideas, for good or bad. 

Jane L. Johnson

In Misesian thinking, only negative outcomes can ever result from dependence on government transfers.

Michael Njoku

Totalitarianism is not compatible with a functioning economic system based upon free exchange and private property. Such regimes depend upon historicism and logical relativism.

Daniel Lacalle

Biden used government spending to bloat growth and job figures so aggressively that the next administration will see a recession if it reduces public-sector growth.

Per Bylund

Austrian economics today needs critics. It doesn‘t need the critics (like Paul Krugman) who cannot give valid and accurate criticisms, but rather people who actually understand the concepts upon which Austrian thinking is built provide a real challenge.