Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken
The GOP Obamacare repeal did nothing to repeal the four core premises of Obamacare and federal control of health care.
Ferghane Azihari
The UK should stop letting itself be blackmailed by the EU, and should simply embrace unilateral free trade.
Ryan McMaken
Trump's plan to increase spending and lower taxes will only increase deficit spending. And that brings with it a host of new costs for taxpayers.
Frank Shostak
Much like an entrepreneur, a good investor seeks to know how to best serve consumers — and then invests his money in firms that do it.
George Pickering
In our world of ultra-easy money, you can now take out a loan to buy a pair of sneakers. What could possibly go wrong?
C.Jay Engel

Fed members Mester, Kashkari, and Rosengren all gave speeches early this week. Here is what they said.

Tho Bishop
Moon Jae-in’s election is a defeat for America, it will likely be one for the South Korean people as well.
Mike Holly

The US has paid a heavy price for denying potential competitors entry into the health-care marketplace.

Friedrich A. Hayek
What individualism teaches us is that society is greater than the individual only in so far as it is free.
Ryan McMaken
By the standards of the protectionists' economic arguments against immigration, state-to-state migrants in the US are a very big problem.