Mises Wire

Matthew McCaffrey
The classical liberals knew the only way to avoid the cycle of war is to oppose imperialism and to advocate peaceful commerce between nations.
C.Jay Engel

The ECB's policy statement was meant to communicate that everything was going strong, but not strong enough to slow down the monetary expansion.

Blaine Conzatti
Higher energy costs mean less money for raising wages for workers, hiring new employees, purchasing more inventory, or investing in capital.
Chris Calton
Before endorsing a legal system, libertarians must first figure out what justice is. The natural-law framework is one way of figuring this out.
Ludwig von Mises
Economics has shown the alleged blessings of an abundance of money are the outcome of crass errors in reasoning.
Ryan McMaken
Local governments could go to the taxpayers and ask for more revenue to fight crime. But, it's much easier to seize it from innocent suspects instead.
Charles Hugh Smith

If the debt burden is large enough, at some point, even a 0.1% interest rate becomes unaffordable.

David Gordon
If a person makes a lot of money through "luck" perhaps the most philosophically rigorous answer is simply this: "so what?"
Tho Bishop
Recent history shows that both force and money are impotent against memes.
C.Jay Engel

Tim Duy pretends that rising interest rates is an example of an excessive Fed, but overlooks the true monetary excesses of monetary expansion.