Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

A look at the world's largest central banks suggests there's no appetite for anything that resembles quantitative tightening.

Per Bylund
Practice and theory are often seen as being distinct and in conflict with each other. But, hands-on entrepreneurs can learn a lot from economic theory.
David Gordon
Cato's Brink Lindsey says we can't evaluate complete laissez-faire because it does not exist; but he somehow "knows" government intervention is better.
Mark Thornton
The Vermont state legislature has voted to legalize recreational marijuana use. This is a first, since other states have relied on statewide votes.
Alasdair Macleod
The UK is in a much better negotiating position than the EU, and the EU knows it.
Murray N. Rothbard
If inflation is the health of the State, how and in what way has government generated inflation in the history of the United States?
Ryan McMaken
Fire departments rarely fight fires anymore, but you wouldn't know it the way department salaries are soaring.
Peter G. Klein

The American Economic Review has published Esther Duflo's Richart T. Ely Lecture, "The Economist as Plumber".

Chris Calton

The scarcity of internet bandwidth cannot be legislated away, and consumers would benefit most from market allocation — not state control.

Brendan Brown
It's not the early 80s, and Paul Volcker isn't Fed Chairman. Trump's deficits will have worse effects than the Reagan deficits.