Mises Wire

Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt's critique of Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax remains relevant as libertarians continue to embrace Universal Basic Income.
Tho Bishop
The Trump's rejection of "net neutrality" is a loss for government regulators, but a win for the internet.
Jonathan Newman

Why is it so controversial to suggest that we should leave interest rates and credit markets alone?

David Gordon
Eric Maskin has made some extravagant claims for the significance of Paul Samuelson.
Ludwig von Mises
Labor is appraised like a commodity not because the entrepreneurs are cruel but because they are subject to the supremacy of the pitiless consumers.
Gregory Bresiger
Without government, who would run the inefficient, crumbling, malfunctioning railroad "enterprise" that is Amtrak?
Jacob G. Hornberger
The US government prosecuted an American man for trying to help the children that US officials were trying to kill with their sanctions.
Alice Salles
Thanks to over-use of prescription painkillers, many patients are becoming addicts who must later turn to illegal drugs to get their next fix.
Ilana Mercer
The South Africans once flirted with a decentralized, federal structure. The United States meddled to make sure that didn't happen.
Mises Institute
The economics of Ludwig von Mises really is something different and revolutionary.