Mises Wire

The Swiss love of privacy and sound economics has endured for centuries. But global trends continue to chip away at these venerable traditions.

Douglas French

Fannie and Freddie are rushing to finance the current rental boom, and package them as mortgage-backed securities. What could go wrong?

Brian Garst
MacLean's hit piece on "radical" libertarians uses the usual tactics: spinning complex conspiracy theories to "prove" the racism of political enemies.
Murray N. Rothbard
Not all human action is truly voluntary in the marketplace. Violence can be used to distort and force a wide variety of relationship among human beings.
Ryan McMaken
Governments and police departments often benefit more from arresting small-time non-violent offenders than by prosecuting truly violent ones.
Ryan McMaken
Repealing the 17th Amendment has its upside, but a simple repeal doesn't go nearly far enough.
Kel Kelly
When tax cuts lay the ground work for a better economy, government statistics often fail to measure the benefits.
Tho Bishop

How do you stop the taxpayer subsidy to Wall Street while avoiding lighting the fuse to Bernanke’s inflation bomb?

Jonathan Newman

There will always be jobs because there will always be scarcity. Human wants are unlimited, yet the resources are limited — even with robots.

Kai Weiss
After a months of retreating on Brexit, and a botched election, the British Conservatives need a hard-line position on free trade and de-regulation.