Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken
In many places, rent growth means more housing is badly needed. Unfortunately, local governments are working hard to limit the supply of housing.
Ryan McMaken
Let's hope the "repeal" of Obamacare doesn't make anyone mistake the American healthcare system for anything that's "free-market."
Ludwig von Mises

The idea of liberty is and has always been peculiar to the West.

Democracy often relies on conflating society with the state. Unfortunately, this confusion can lead to the politicization of every facet of daily life.
C.Jay Engel

Today's FOMC meeting announcement has the Fed keeping rates unchanged and dismissing a weak Q1 GDP number as merely "transitory."

Thorsten Polleit
Either the boom goes on, and interest rates continue to remain at very low levels. Or interest rates move back to normal, and the boom turns into bust.
Jeff Deist
Austro-libertarians will find much to admire in his brilliant takedowns of the “pseudo-experts” in academia, journalism, politics, and science.
Tho Bishop
Whether it's fishing or the Fed, the answer isn’t trying win over Washington – it is fighting it.
Frank Shostak
The core driver of general increases in prices of goods and services is central-bank driven money-supply growth, not the price of oil.
Ludwig von Mises
No intelligent man could fail to recognize that the left's aim was the abolition of the individual's freedom.