Mises Wire

Stephan F. Gohmann
US airlines and their workers are motivated to get the government to protect them as a special interest group at a cost to consumers as a whole.
Tim Haffner
A crony-capitalist, semi-privatized war in Afghanistan, may be cheaper — but it's still an unwarranted occupation financed by taxpayers.
Ryan McMaken
Almost everyone agrees that infrastructure spending is always a slam dunk for the economy. Unfortunately, they're often wrong.
Mises Institute
Jeff joins John O'Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld to discuss the health of the US economy.
Tho Bishop
Hopefully Steve Baker will prove to be a great asset for the UK in its divorce from Jean-Claude Juncker and the bureaucracy in Brussels.
Theodore Dalrymple
In this review of two new books on social class, Theordore Dalrymple examines some of the realities that frustrate the efforts of the egalitarians.
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.